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Surface structure helps desert ants return to known feeding sites

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Merkle, Tobias

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Desert ants, Cataglyphίs fortis, return to their nest when they are disturbed during their foraging trips. Training them to a landmark corridor enabled us to induce ants that were captured immediately after leaving the nest and transferred to an unknown

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Date published: 2009
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61496
Source: Communicative & Integrative Biology
DOI: 10.1242/;eb 022715

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