.... Celestial compass Central place forager Panorama snapshot Spatial orientation Visual landmark Vector navigation Hymenopteran central place foragers – such as bees, wasps and ants – perform so-called learning flights or walks whenever they have to memorize the landmark panorama surrounding...

... installed, the ants shift their search density peaks more closely to the fictive goal position, the more learning walks they have performed. These results suggest that learning of a visual landmark panorama around a goal is a gradual rather than an instantaneous process. * Author for correspondence...

... are able to make use of other information carried by the wind. short-range orientation King Penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus chick visual landmark Navigation in many colonial species poses a riddle, given the current understanding of short-range navigation. Once an animal arrives closer...

... dance. Moreover, we found that the bees'experience of the terrain modulates the encoding of spatial information in the waggle dance, suggesting that interactions between path integration and visual landmarks are computed in the context of dance communication. * Author for correspondence (e...

... sun compass anosmia visual landmark orientation Kramer's `map and compass' concepts are useful tools to explain in general the mechanisms underlying navigation in birds( Kramer, 1953 ). After displacement, homing can take place if a bird is able to establish the new position with respect...