Ant homing ability is not diminished when travelling backwards

Ants are known to be capable of homing to their nest after displacement to a novel location. This is widely assumed to involve some form of retinotopic matching between their current view and previously experienced views. One simple algorithm proposed to explain this behaviour is continuous retinot...

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Main Authors: Paul Bjorn Ardin, Michael eMangan, Barbara eWebb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00069/full