... 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...

... via 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...

...@staff.miyakyo-u.ac.jp ) 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 navigation (Wehner, 1982 , 2003 ; Collett and Collett...

... 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...

...-mail: Susanne.Akesson@zooekol.lu.se ) † Please send reprint requests to rwehner@zool.unizh.ch 23 4 2002 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 navigation visual navigation landmark guidance celestial reference system learning insect ant Cataglyphis fortis References...

... trajectory along the obstacle and, hence, must have determined their new vector course in an egocentric way. *Author for correspondence (e-mail: rwehner@zool.unizh.ch ) 1 10 2001 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2001 2001 homing landmark guidance landmark obstacle detour vector...

... 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...

... the storage capacity of insect brains. These constraints are rarely addressed in models of landmark guidance. Krakauer (1995) , for instance, who studied neural network models of landmark guidance, left some possibly crucial questions open: how do insects identify landmarks during acquisition and how do...

... landmark guidance spatial memory cognitive maps Unlike monarch butterflies ( Brower, 1996 ), bees, ants, wasps and other social hymenopterans do not travel seasonally over distances of thousands of kilometres. Nevertheless, on their day-to-day foraging trips they may leave their nesting site...