In a synthetic approach to studying navigational abilities in desert ants, we review recent
work comparing ants living in different visual ecologies. Those living in a visually rich habitat …

The behaviours and cognitive mechanisms animals use to orient, navigate, and remember
spatial locations exemplify how cognitive abilities have evolved to suit a number of different …

Solitary foraging insects display stunning navigational behaviours in visually complex
natural environments. Current literature assumes that these insects are mostly driven by …

Insects use path integration (PI) to maintain a home vector, but can also store and recall
vector-memories that take them from home to a food location, and even allow them to take …

Ants are excellent navigators, using a combination of innate strategies and learnt
information to guide habitual routes. The mechanisms underlying this behaviour are little …

Insects typically use celestial sources of directional information for path integration, and
terrestrial panoramic information for view-based navigation. Here we set celestial and …

How do ants resolve conflicts between different sets of navigational cues during navigation?
When two cue sets point to diametrically opposite directions, theories predict that animals …

ABSTRACT The central Australian ant Melophorus bagoti is the most thermophilic ant in
Australia and forages solitarily in the summer months during the hottest period of the day …

The movement pattern of a searching animal affects how it interacts with the environment,
thus playing an important role in many environmental processes. Social hymenopteran …

Ants are expert navigators, kee** track of the vector to home as they travel, through path
integration, and using terrestrial panoramas in view-based navigation. Although insect …