... without memory. Here, we show that pheromones can indeed cause naïve flies to accumulate where previous flies had been rewarded in a navigation task. Therefore, we designed an experiment to determine if flies can use path integration memory despite potential pheromonal cues by displacing the flies shortly...

... 100,000 words of the Corpus of Contemporary American English so that only those considered navigationally interesting were retained. We further searched each abstract for mentions of key terms relating to Tinbergen's four questions (B) and to specific taxa (C). We found that the word ‘mechanism’ accounts...

.... ( 1998 ). Spatial representations and homing pigeon navigation . In Spatial Representation in Animals (ed. S. Healy) , pp. 69 - 85 . New York : Oxford University Press . Cheng , K. and Spetch , M. L. ( 1998 ). Mechanisms of landmark use in mammals and birds. In Spatial...

....0812513106 Fotowat , H. , Lee , C. , Jun , J. J. and Maler , L. ( 2019 ). Neural activity in a hippocampus-like region of the teleost pallium is associated with active sensing and navigation . Elife 8 , e44119 . 10.7554/eLife.44119 Giassi , A. C. C. , Ellis , W...

...Thiemo Karwinkel; Michael Winklhofer; Lars Erik Janner; Vera Brust; Ommo Hüppop; Franz Bairlein; Heiko Schmaljohann ABSTRACT Current evidence suggests that migratory animals extract map information from the geomagnetic field for true navigation. The sensory basis underlying this feat is elusive...

... abilities of seals to estimate distances ( Maaß and Hanke, 2021 ) and to keep a straight path ( Vance et al., 2021 ). Our results thus allow the formulation of new hypotheses on landmark orientation or orientation/navigation in general to be tested in the future in an attempt to explain the well-documented...

...Samuel T. Fabian; Mary E. Sumner; Trevor J. Wardill; Paloma T. Gonzalez-Bellido ABSTRACT The miniature robber fly Holcocephala fusca intercepts its targets with behaviour that is approximated by the proportional navigation guidance law. During predatory trials, we challenged the interception of H...

..., 2006 ), demonstrating that directional information conveying the highest certainty at any given moment is afforded the greatest weight in the navigational network of the animal. The authors wish to thank the Harvey family at Stonehenge Game Farm for helping us collect animals in the field. We...

...Daniel A. Shaykevich; Andrius Pašukonis; Lauren A. O'Connell ABSTRACT Many animals exhibit complex navigation over different scales and environments. Navigation studies in amphibians have largely focused on species with life histories that require accurate spatial movements, such as territorial...

...Florian Packmor; Dmitry Kishkinev; Flora Bittermann; Barbara Kofler; Clara Machowetz; Thomas Zechmeister; Lucinda C. Zawadzki; Tim Guilford; Richard A. Holland ABSTRACT For studies on magnetic compass orientation and navigation performance in small bird species, controlled experiments...

... of spatial memory for water finding in a tadpole-transporting frog . Anim. Behav. 116 , 89 - 98 . 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.02.023 Pašukonis , A. , Loretto , M.-C. and Hödl , W. ( 2018 ). Map-like navigation from distances exceeding routine movements in the three-striped poison frog...

... of ∼100–600 m, after which they gradually return to shallower depths ( Willis et al., 2009 ). Willis et al. (2009) argue that spike dives play a role in updating the tuna's navigational systems. Celestial polarization patterns at sunrise and sunset can be used as a calibration reference for the sun...

...Olivier J. N. Bertrand; Charlotte Doussot; Tim Siesenop; Sridhar Ravi; Martin Egelhaaf ABSTRACT One persistent question in animal navigation is how animals follow habitual routes between their home and a food source. Our current understanding of insect navigation suggests an interplay between...

...Maxwell L. Zhu; Kristian J. Herrera; Katrin Vogt; Armin Bahl ABSTRACT Navigating across light gradients is essential for survival for many animals. However, we still have a poor understanding of the algorithms that underlie such behaviors. Here, we developed a novel closed-loop phototaxis assay...

...Te K. Jones; Cynthia F. Moss ABSTRACT Studies have shown that bats are capable of using visual information for a variety of purposes, including navigation and foraging, but the relative contributions of visual and auditory modalities in obstacle avoidance has yet to be fully investigated...

...Kaylyn A. S. Flanigan; Daniel D. Wiegmann; Eileen A. Hebets; Verner P. Bingman ABSTRACT Whip spiders (Amblypygi) reside in structurally complex habitats and are nocturnally active yet display notable navigational abilities. From the theory that uncertainty in sensory inputs should promote...

...Roman Goulard; Cornelia Buehlmann; Jeremy E. Niven; Paul Graham; Barbara Webb ABSTRACT The natural scale of insect navigation during foraging makes it challenging to study under controlled conditions. Virtual reality and trackball setups have offered experimental control over visual environments...

...Norihiro Kobayashi; Ryuichi Okada; Midori Sakura ABSTRACT Many insects exploit the partial plane polarization of skylight for visual compass orientation and/or navigation. In the present study, using a tethering system, we investigated how flying bees respond to polarized light stimuli...

.... However, route use could also increase journey length, especially if an animal only uses a small number of known routes to move between different locations, somewhat like a motorway network, and is not able to make novel shortcuts. So, whilst potentially energetically and navigationally beneficial...

...E. Pascal Malkemper; Simon Nimpf; Gregory C. Nordmann; David A. Keays ABSTRACT Magnetoreception is the ability to sense the Earth's magnetic field, which is used for orientation and navigation. Behavioural experiments have shown that it is employed by many species across all vertebrate classes...