Multimodal interactions in insect navigation

C Buehlmann, M Mangan, P Graham - Animal cognition, 2020‏ - Springer
Animals travelling through the world receive input from multiple sensory modalities that
could be important for the guidance of their journeys. Given the availability of a rich array of …

The neuroethology of ant navigation

T Collett, P Graham, S Heinze - Current Biology, 2025‏ - cell.com
Unlike any other group of animals, all ant species are social: individual ants share the food
they gather with their nestmates and as a consequence they must repeatedly leave their …

Experimental ethology of learning in desert ants: becoming expert navigators

CA Freas, PN Fleischmann, K Cheng - Behavioural processes, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Foraging desert ants are repeatedly presented with the challenge of leaving the nest,
searching the scorching desert landscape to find food, and then transporting it back home …

How to navigate in different environments and situations: lessons from ants

CA Freas, P Schultheiss - Frontiers in psychology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Ants are a globally distributed insect family whose members have adapted to live in a wide
range of different environments and ecological niches. Foraging ants everywhere face the …

On the encoding of panoramic visual scenes in navigating wood ants

C Buehlmann, JL Woodgate, TS Collett - Current Biology, 2016‏ - cell.com
A natural visual panorama is a complex stimulus formed of many component shapes. It gives
an animal a sense of place and supplies guiding signals for controlling the animal's direction …

Honeybees use the skyline in orientation

WF Towne, AE Ritrovato, A Esposto… - Journal of …, 2017‏ - journals.biologists.com
In view-based navigation, animals acquire views of the landscape from various locations
and then compare the learned views with current views in order to orient in certain directions …

Is this scenery worth exploring? Insight into the visual encoding of navigating ants

L Clement, S Schwarz… - Journal of …, 2025‏ - journals.biologists.com
Solitary foraging insects like desert ants rely heavily on vision for navigation. While ants can
learn visual scenes, it is unclear what cues they use to decide if a scene is worth exploring at …

[HTML][HTML] Complementary landmarks facilitate ant navigation

ER Hunt, C Kendall, E Stanbury… - Behavioural …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Visual landmarks are important navigational aids to many animals, and when more than one
is available their juxtaposition can convey valuable new information to a navigator about …

Use of visual information by ant species occurring in similar urban anthropogenic environments

Y Notomi, T Kazawa, S Maezawa, R Kanzaki… - Zoological science, 2022‏ - BioOne
Many insects, including ants, are known to respond visually to conspicuous objects. In this
study, we compared orientation in an arena containing only a black target beacon as local …

The routes of one-eyed ants suggest a revised model of normal route following

JL Woodgate, C Perl, TS Collett - Journal of Experimental …, 2021‏ - journals.biologists.com
The prevailing account of visually controlled routes is that an ant learns views as it follows a
route, while guided by other path-setting mechanisms. Once a set of route views is …