... 18 1 2012 21 5 2012 © 2012. 2012 ant vector-based navigation path integration landmark guidance intraspecific comparison One of the big open questions in research on ant navigation in particular, and insect navigation in general, is the relative role that path...

... Melophorus bagoti path integration landmark guidance interspecific comparison Cataglyphis fortis Forel 1902 and Melophorus bagoti Lubbock 1883 are two species of desert ants (subfamily Formicinae) that, on different continents, occupy the same general ecological niche as thermophilic...

... the shortest possible way. Playing out the reverse of the home vector enables it to return to a feeding site ( Wehner et al.,2002 ). desert ants Cataglyphis foraging landmark guidance path integration © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 6 9 2008 * Author...

.... * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 22 6 2004 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2004 2004 ant Formica japonica landmark guidance navigation path integration In recent times ants have become model organisms for the study of animal...

... wood ant landmark guidance snapshot binding configural learning navigation Much evidence (for reviews, see Collett and Zeil, 1998 ; Collett and Collett, 2002 ; Zeil et al.,2003 ) suggests that insects pinpoint a place by means of two-dimensional (2-D) retinotopic memories...

... visual navigation landmark guidance celestial reference system learning insect ant Cataglyphis fortis We thank Franz-Xavier Dillier and Kirstin Kopp for assistance in the field. This project was financed by grants from the Swedish Natural Science Research Council and the Swedish...

... (tortuous) courses? homing landmark guidance landmark obstacle detour vector navigation motor learning idiothetic orientation desert ant Cataglyphis fortis . ...

... of Biologists Limited 2001 2001 homing navigation landmark guidance skyline panorama ant Formica japonica . Several species of wood ant (genus Formica ) have been shown to exhibit high degrees of site or route fidelity based mainly on visual memories of environmental landmarks ( Rosengren...

... Collett , T. S. ( 1996 ). Insect navigation en route to the goal: multiple strategies of landmark guidance in insect navigation . J. exp. Biol . 199 , 227 – 235 . 10.1242/jeb.199.1.227 Collett , T. S. and Baron , J. ( 1994 ). Biological compasses and the coordinate frame...

... crucial aspects of landmark guidance: when the insects acquire information about the goal location and how they recall and use this information to pinpoint the goal. At the level of flight paths, no two learning flights are the same. Yet, even across species, we find similarities in certain details...