Ant physiology has been fashioned by 100 million years of social evolution. Ants perform
many sophisticated social and collective behaviors yet possess nervous systems similar in …

The use of information provided by the geomagnetic field (GMF) for navigation is
widespread across the animal kingdom. At the same time, the magnetic sense is one of the …

Visual navigation in ants has long been a focus of experimental study [1–3], but only recently
have explicit hypotheses about the underlying neural circuitry been proposed [4]. Indirect …

Ants communicate via large arrays of pheromones and possess expanded, highly complex
olfactory systems, with antennal lobes in the brain comprising up to∼ 500 glomeruli. This …

Forward models are mechanisms enabling an agent to predict the sensory outcomes of its
actions. They can be implemented through efference copies: copies of motor signals …

Ants are capable of learning long visually guided foraging routes with limited neural
resources. The visual scene memory needed for this behaviour is mediated by the …

Insects can navigate efficiently in both novel and familiar environments, and this requires
flexiblity in how they are guided by sensory cues. A prominent landmark, for example, can …

Many animal species rely on the Earth's magnetic field during navigation, but where in the
brain magnetic information is processed is still unknown. To unravel this, we manipulated …

Ants store and recall views associated with foraging success, facilitating future foraging
journeys. Negative views are also learned, but instead prompt avoidance behaviors such as …

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 …