ReviewFrontiers in psychology2018
How to Navigate in Different Environments and Situations: Lessons From Ants.
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- Assessing quantity combination and dissociation in giraffes.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Restriction of pedicel-flagellum joint in the antennae negatively impacts recruitment but not exploration in ants.Movement ecology · 2026Article
- A Vector-Based Computational Model of Multimodal Insect Learning Walks.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Ant visual route navigation: How the fine details of behaviour promote successful route performance and convergence.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Foraging by predatory ants: A review.Insect science · 2025Review
- Three systems of circuit formation: assembly, updating and tuning.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Behavioral Variation in Individual and Group Exploration of the Tropical Fire antZoological studies · 2025Article
- 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
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- Quantitative abilities of invertebrates: a methodological review.Animal cognition · 2022Review
- Searching Behavior in the Tropical Fire AntZoological studies · 2022Article
- Spatial cognition in the context of foraging styles and information transfer in ants.Animal cognition · 2020Review
- Not just going with the flow: foraging ants attend to polarised light even while on the pheromone trail.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
- From skylight input to behavioural output: A computational model of the insect polarised light compass.PLoS computational biology · 2019Article
- Ants learn fast and do not forget: associative olfactory learning, memory and extinction inRoyal Society open science · 2019Article
- Terrestrial cue learning and retention during the outbound and inbound foraging trip in the desert ant, Cataglyphis velox.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Ants are a globally distributed insect family whose members have adapted to live in a wide range of different environments and ecological niches. Foraging ants everywhere face the recurring challenge of navigating to find food and to bring it back to the nest. More than a century of research has led to the identification of some key navigational strategies, such as compass navigation, path integration, and route following. Ants have been shown to rely on visual, olfactory, and idiothetic cues for navigational guidance. Here, we summarize recent behavioral work, focusing on how these cues are learned and stored as well as how different navigational cues are integrated, often between strategies and even across sensory modalities. Information can also be communicated between different navigational routines. In this way, a shared toolkit of fundamental navigational strategies can lead to substantial flexibility in behavioral outcomes. This allows individual ants to tune their behavioral repertoire to different tasks (e.g., foraging and homing), lifestyles (e.g., diurnal and nocturnal), or environments, depending on the availability and reliability of different guidance cues. We also review recent anatomical and physiological studies in ants and other insects that have started to reveal neural correlates for specific navigational strategies, and which may provide the beginnings of a truly mechanistic understanding of navigation behavior.
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