Looking and homing: how displaced ants decide where to go

Zeil, Jochen; Narendra, Ajay; Sturzl, Wolfgang

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Looking and homing: how displaced ants decide where to go

Date

2014

Authors

Zeil, Jochen

Narendra, Ajay

Sturzl, Wolfgang

Publisher

Royal Society Publishing

Abstract

We caught solitary foragers of the Australian Jack Jumper ant, Myrmecia croslandi, and released them in three compass directions at distances of 10 and 15 m from the nest at locations they have never been before. We recorded the head orientation and the m