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Smells like home: Desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, use olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest.

Steck K, Hansson BS, Knaden M.

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Landmark guidance and vector navigation in outbound desert ants.

Merkle T, Wehner R.

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The ant's estimation of distance travelled: experiments with desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis.

Sommer S, Wehner R.

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Visual navigation in desert ants Cataglyphis fortis: are snapshots coupled to a celestial system of reference?

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J Exp Biol. 2002 Jul;205(Pt 14):1971-8.PMID: 12089203 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Nest-mark orientation versus vector navigation in desert ants.

Bregy P, Sommer S, Wehner R.

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Visual and tactile learning of ground structures in desert ants.

Seidl T, Wehner R.

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Ant navigation: resetting the path integrator.

Knaden M, Wehner R.

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Desert ants compensate for navigation uncertainty.

Wolf H, Wehner R.

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Path integration in desert ants, Cataglyphis: how to make a homing ant run away from home.

Andel D, Wehner R.

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Landmark cues can change the motivational state of desert ant foragers.

Merkle T, Wehner R.

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Landmark memories are more robust when acquired at the nest site than en route: experiments in desert ants.

Bisch-Knaden S, Wehner R.

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Local vectors in desert ants: context-dependent landmark learning during outbound and homebound runs.

Bisch-Knaden S, Wehner R.

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Surface structure helps desert ants return to known feeding sites.

Merkle T.

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Local and global navigational coordinate systems in desert ants.

Collett M, Collett TS.

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Homing strategies of the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti. II. Interaction of the path integrator with visual cue information.

Narendra A.

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Path integration in a three-dimensional maze: ground distance estimation keeps desert ants Cataglyphis fortis on course.

Grah G, Wehner R, Ronacher B.

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The learning and maintenance of local vectors in desert ant navigation.

Collett M, Collett TS.

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Do familiar landmarks reset the global path integration system of desert ants?

Collett M, Collett TS, Chameron S, Wehner R.

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Vector navigation in desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis: celestial compass cues are essential for the proper use of distance information.

Sommer S, Wehner R.

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Pinpointing food sources: olfactory and anemotactic orientation in desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis.

Wolf H, Wehner R.

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