ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2014
Scene perception and the visual control of travel direction in navigating wood ants.
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- Desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) oscillate and scan more in navigation when the visual scene changes.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Trail using ants follow idiosyncratic routes in complex landscapes.Learning & behavior · 2024Article
- Behavioral responses of free-flying Drosophila melanogaster to shiny, reflecting surfaces.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Impact of central complex lesions on innate and learnt visual navigation in ants.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- What view information is most important in the homeward navigation of an Australian bull ant, Myrmecia midas?Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- A unified mechanism for innate and learned visual landmark guidance in the insect central complex.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- A motion compensation treadmill for untethered wood ants (The Journal of experimental biology · 2020Article
- The Cataglyphis Mahrèsienne: 50 years of Cataglyphis research at Mahrès.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Review
- Emergence of a complex movement pattern in an unfamiliar food place by foraging ants.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
- Homing in a tropical social wasp: role of spatial familiarity, motivation and age.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Article
- Seeing and doing: how vision shapes animal behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2014Article
- Looking and homing: how displaced ants decide where to go.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2014Article
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Abstract
This review reflects a few of Mike Land's many and varied contributions to visual science. In it, we show for wood ants, as Mike has done for a variety of animals, including readers of this piece, what can be learnt from a detailed analysis of an animal's visually guided eye, head or body movements. In the case of wood ants, close examination of their body movements, as they follow visually guided routes, is starting to reveal how they perceive and respond to their visual world and negotiate a path within it. We describe first some of the mechanisms that underlie the visual control of their paths, emphasizing that vision is not the ant's only sense. In the second part, we discuss how remembered local shape-dependent and global shape-independent features of a visual scene may interact in guiding the ant's path.
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