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Polarised skylight and the landmark panorama provide night-active bull ants with compass information during route following

Date

Authors

Reid, Samuel

Narendra, Ajay

Hemmi, Jan

Zeil, Jochen

Publisher

The Company of Biologists Ltd

Abstract

Navigating animals are known to use a number of celestial and terrestrial compass cues that allow them to determine and control their direction of travel. Which of the cues dominate appears to depend on their salience. Here we show that night-active bull

Keywords

Keywords: animal; animal behavior; ant; article; association; astronomy; depth perception; food; light; orientation; photography; photoperiodicity; physiology; Animals; Ants; Cues; Food; Homing Behavior; Light; Orientation; Photography; Photoperiod; Solar System; S Ant; Landmark panorama; Myrmecia pyriformis; Navigation; Nocturnal foraging; Orientation; Polarised skylight

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/66434

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Experimental Biology

Type

Journal article

Access Statement

Open Access

DOI

10.1242/jeb.049338

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