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Desert ants on a thermal tightrope

✍ Scribed by Wehner, R.; Marsh, A. C.; Wehner, S.

Book ID
109780874
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
221 KB
Volume
357
Category
Article
ISSN
0028-0836

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Little is known about the way in which animals far from home use familiar landmarks to guide their homeward path. Desert ants, Cataglyphis spp., which forage individually over long distances are beginning to provide some answers. We find that ants running 30 m from a feeding place to their nest memo