Equipped with a mini brain smaller than one cubic millimeter and containing only 950,000
neurons, honeybees could be indeed considered as having rather limited cognitive abilities …

Animals travelling through the world receive input from multiple sensory modalities that
could be important for the guidance of their journeys. Given the availability of a rich array of …

In this paper we propose a model of visually guided route navigation in ants that captures
the known properties of real behaviour whilst retaining mechanistic simplicity and thus …

Research over the past century has revealed the impressive capacities of the honeybee,
Apis mellifera, in relation to visual perception, flight guidance, navigation, and learning and …

Increasing global light pollution 1, 2 threatens the night-time darkness to which most animals
are adapted. Light pollution can have detrimental effects on behavior, 3–5 including by …

Foragers of many ant species learn long, visually guided routes between their nest and
profitable feeding grounds [1–3]. The sensorimotor mechanisms underpinning the use of …

Planarian flatworms are a popular system for research into the molecular mechanisms that
enable these complex organisms to regenerate their entire body, including the brain …

Individually foraging desert ants of central Australia, Melophorus bagoti, exhibit amazingly
precise mechanisms of visual landmark guidance when navigating through cluttered …

Visual learning admits different levels of complexity, from the formation of a simple
associative link between a visual stimulus and its outcome, to more sophisticated …

Foragers of many ant species use pheromone trails to guide nestmates to food sources.
During foraging, individual workers can also learn the route to a food source. Foragers of the …