Publication: Navigation in wood ants Formica japonica: context dependent use of landmarks.
Navigation in wood ants Formica japonica: context dependent use of landmarks.
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Fukushi, T., & Wehner, R. (2004). Navigation in wood ants Formica japonica: context dependent use of landmarks. Journal of Experimental Biology, 207, 3431–3439. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.01159
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Wood ants Formica japonica can steer their outbound (foraging) and inbound (homing) courses without using celestial compass information, by relying exclusively on landmark cues. This is shown by training ants to run back and forth between the nest and an artificial feeder, and later displacing the trained ants either from the nest (when starting their foraging runs: outbound full-vector ants) or from the feeder (when starting their home runs: inbound full-vector ants) to various nearby release sites. In addition, ants that have alread
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- Fukushi, T
- Wehner, R
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Fukushi, T., & Wehner, R. (2004). Navigation in wood ants Formica japonica: context dependent use of landmarks. Journal of Experimental Biology, 207, 3431–3439. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.01159
