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- Title
- Traveling in clutter : navigation in the Central Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti
- Related
- Behavioural processes, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009), p.261-268
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.10.015
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Date
- 2008
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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080100 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
170100 Psychology
170200 Cognitive Sciences
- Author/Creator
- Cheng, Ken
- Author/Creator
- Narendra, Ajay
- Author/Creator
- Sommer, Stefan
- Author/Creator
- Wehner, Rüediger
- Description
- Available online 13 November 2008. The Central Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti is the most thermophilic ant on the continent. It comes out to forage during the hottest part of the day in the summer months. The ant shares a cluttered, plant-filled habitat with other arthropods and uses a range of navigational strategies. We review recent studies on this species concerning its use of habitual routes, distant landmarks, landmarks around the nest, and path integration, which is keeping track of the distance and direction traveled from one's starting point. Functional predictions concerning the acquisition, retention, and integration of memories of distances and of landmarks are also reviewed, illuminating the behavioral ecology of spatial cognition.
- Description
- 8 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 080100 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
- Subject Keyword
- 170100 Psychology
- Subject Keyword
- 170200 Cognitive Sciences
- Subject Keyword
- desert ant
- Subject Keyword
- view-based navigation
- Subject Keyword
- route
- Subject Keyword
- landmark
- Subject Keyword
- path integration
- Subject Keyword
- behavioral ecology
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Brain, Behaviour and Evolution
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/113739
- Identifier
- ISSN:0376-6357
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2009005662
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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