| Establishing food site vectors in desert ants. | |
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PMID: 22279072 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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When returning to the site of a successful previous forage, where does one search for the goodies? Should one rely on experience from the previous homebound journey, or should one consider the outbound journey as well, or even exclusively? Desert ants are particularly well suited for pursuing this question because of their primary reliance on path integration in open and featureless desert habitats. Path integration has been studied particularly with regard to homing after lengthy foraging trips. The ants also use path integration to return to plentiful feeding sites, but what is memorised for revisiting the feeder remains controversial. Here, we demonstrate that desert ants consider, and indeed linearly average, both outbound and inbound travel for their return to a familiar feeder. This may be interpreted as a strategy to reduce navigation errors. |
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Siegfried Bolek; Matthias Wittlinger; Harald Wolf |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Journal of experimental biology Volume: 215 ISSN: 1477-9145 ISO Abbreviation: J. Exp. Biol. Publication Date: 2012 Feb |
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Created Date: 2012-01-26 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0243705 Medline TA: J Exp Biol Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 653-6 Citation Subset: IM |
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Institute of Neurobiology, University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germany. |
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