Surface structure helps desert ants return to known feeding sites

Merkle, Tobias

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Surface structure helps desert ants return to known feeding sites

Date

2009

Authors

Merkle, Tobias

Publisher

Landes Bioscience

Abstract

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