...Leo Clement; Sebastian Schwarz; Blandine Mahot-Castaing; Antoine Wystrach ABSTRACT Solitary foraging insects such as desert ants rely heavily on vision for navigation. Although ants can learn visual scenes, it is unclear what cues they use to decide whether a scene is worth exploring at the first...

...Kandace R. Griffin; Christopher M. Holbrook; Daniel P. Zielinski; Christopher L. Cahill; C. Michael Wagner ABSTRACT Efficient navigation is crucial for the reproductive success of many migratory species, often driven by competing pressures to conserve energy and reduce predation risk. Little...

...Robyn S. Hetem; Kiara A. Haylock; Melinda Boyers; Francesca Parrini; Norman Owen-Smith; Piet Beytell; W. Maartin Strauss ABSTRACT Movement paths are influenced by external factors and depend on an individual's navigation capacity (Where to move?), motion capacity (How to move?) and are ultimately...

... rely on visual and olfactory landmarks. Here, we investigated the navigational decision making of these ants in differently structured environments. While individual ants show consistent route preferences, significant variability exists between individuals. Furthermore, the ants favor repetitive routes...

... are interpreted in the context of other findings about the structure of navigational memory in bees that develops during exploratory orientation flights. In particular, the data suggest that bees embed distance measures into a representation of navigational space that stores previously experienced landscape...

... 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...

... when approaching landmarks from a distance or from unfamiliar positions. Spatial strategies Navigation Rule-based searching Cognitive map Pinnipeds Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007636 Volkswagen Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039...

... random sharp turns transition to smooth trajectories, but remain unpredictable and not simple direct paths to food. Weakly electric fish Electrolocation Path integration Foraging Navigation Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada http://dx.doi.org/10.13039...

...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...

.... Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2022 Summary: When encoding goals in respect to landmarks, harbour seals choose the strategy depending on context but predominantly use a directional vector strategy. Spatial strategies Navigation Orientation Expansion test Marine mammal...

...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...

... dung beetle K. lamarcki relies on directional information in a Bayesian manner, affording the greatest weight to directional information conveying the highest certainty at the given moment. Directional cues Compass Weighting Heading direction network Navigation Degree of polarisation...

...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...

.... Tropical amphibians Water finding Navigation Frog olfaction Chemical cues Reproductive strategy Horizon 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010661 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions 835530 Austrian Science Fund http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002428 J3827-B29...

... in the geomagnetic field. Homing Map information Migration Navigation Amphibians Orientation The homing ability of newts (Salamandridae) has been studied in both North America and Europe ( Diego-Rasilla, 2003 ; Diego-Rasilla et al., 2005 , 2008 ; Phillips, 1986a , 1987 ; Phillips and Borland...

...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...

...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...

...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...