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The interplay between maze complexity, colony size, learning and memory in ants while solving a maze: A test at the colony level

Central-place foragers need to explore their immediate habitat in order to reach food. We let colonies of the individually foraging desert ant Cataglyphis niger search for a food reward in a maze. We did so for three tests per day over two successive days and an additional test after a time interval...

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Autores principales: Saar, Maya, Gilad, Tomer, Kilon-Kallner, Tal, Rosenfeld, Adar, Subach, Aziz, Scharf, Inon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28837675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183753