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Ants’ navigation in an unfamiliar environment is influenced by their experience of a familiar route

When displaced experimentally from a food source (feeder) to unfamiliar terrain, ants run off a portion of the homeward vector or its entirety, depending on species and conditions, and then search systematically, turning in loops of ever increasing size. The Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti r...

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Autores principales: Schwarz, Sebastian, Wystrach, Antoine, Cheng, Ken
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5658437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29074991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14036-1