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SUBMITTER: Schwarz S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5658437 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schwarz Sebastian S Wystrach Antoine A Cheng Ken K
Scientific reports 20171026 1
When displaced experimentally from a food source (feeder) to unfamiliar terrain, ants run off a portion of the homeward vector or its entirety, depending on species and conditions, and then search systematically, turning in loops of ever increasing size. The Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti runs off a smaller portion of its vector if the test site is more dissimilar to its nest area. Here we manipulated familiarity with the training route between a feeder and the ants' nest to examine its ...[more]