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... for navigation with simpler, more procedural ...What do I do? ’ question ...to do ’ ...Similarly, ants could use a set of views, remembered whilst travelling along a route, to set ... See full document

... of navigation, even if the route that is followed by an animal will usually not be straight at ...nest. Ants are no exception, and indeed ant trails that lead from the nest to a food source and back are ... See full document

... an insect with a visual system that is fixed relative to its body axis can recover a heading by rotating until it finds the best match between the current scene and a stored ...the insect was previously ... See full document

... Desert ants of the genus Cataglyphis returning from a foraging trip to the nest use both path integration and visual landmarks as navigation tools for relocating the nest site (Wehner and Wehner, 1990; ... See full document

... Foraging ants and bees use path-integration vectors and landmark cues for ...the insect may weight either source more heavily depending on the navigational context and the animalʼs motivational ...Trained ... See full document

... of ants (Fleischmann et ...Desert ants in particular, which are well known for their navigational performance (Ronacher, 2008; Wehner, 2008; Wehner and Rössler, 2013; Wehner et ...Cataglyphis ants ... See full document

... If ants are accustomed to forage at a constant location, with the path between foraging site and nest flanked by conspicuous landmarks, individual ants come to follow a stereotyped route ...whether ... See full document

... distances, ants form habitual routes, using view-matching not to estimate the position of their goal but to keep the ants moving in the correct direction along their ...route. Ants and bees do ... See full document

... Such changes could further provide insights into the mechanisms behind hexapod navigation. Cataglyphis were found to employ odometry during inclined locomotion (Wittlinger et al., 2006; Wohlgemuth et al., 2001), ... See full document

... the ants did not focus only on the landmark but relied simultaneously on the distant panorama for ...in ants and seems an appropriate strat- egy to cope with the complexity of natural scenes, the poor ... See full document

... the ants to the feeding site, a trail of biscuit crumbs was laid out towards the ...experiments, ants were marked individually with a colour code (small dots of automobile varnish applied with insect ... See full document

... preparing live ant samples for CT ...110 ants by hand. After 10 s of swirling, the ants produced a stable ball, which was then frozen by pouring liquid nitrogen into the ... See full document

... First, there is, prima facie, no reason why any given value or, in general, any particular ethic, should not produce a high score by one criterion and a low score by another…. Thus the ‘ascetic ideal’ generally scores ... See full document

... the ants were exploiting afterimages during training, they should, when placed directly in the second chamber, prefer the BW pattern when the second chamber was illuminated with yellow light and the WB pattern ... See full document

... (e.g. ants and beetles) spend much time walking on plant surfaces and require strong adhesion when walking vertically or upside down, sometimes carrying the equivalent of several times their own body weight ... See full document

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... of navigation (and neither would pointing back to the origin from a destination), but we contend that the approach we implemented in our study indeed represents an everyday ...assisted navigation, add- ... See full document

... coefficients on the area dummies are reduced in size and statistical significance. But there still remains an unexplained significant difference between the life satisfaction in city and rural areas. Also a number of the ... See full document

... Social insect taxa, which face an increased threat from pathogens due to demographic attributes such as high genetic similarities amongst nestmates and high population densities, differ in ways that allow us to ... See full document

... Temnothorax ants rely on qualitative analysis of the cu- ticular profiles to discriminate parasite from non-parasite species in parasitized ...from ants weighting more some compounds (be they specific to ... See full document