Ants and other insects often follow fixed routes from their nest to a foraging site. The shape
of an ant's route is set, initially, by navigational strategies, such as path integration and the …

In this review, we discuss the functional equivalence of the avian and mammalian
hippocampus, based mostly on our own research in domestic chicks, which provide an …

Background Insects are known to rely on terrestrial landmarks for navigation. Landmarks are
used to chart a route or pinpoint a goal. The distant panorama, however, is often thought not …

In order to protect their food from competitors, ball-rolling dung beetles detach a piece of
dung from a pile, shape it into a ball, and roll it away along a straight path [1]. They appear to …

Ants are excellent navigators, using a combination of innate strategies and learnt
information to guide habitual routes. The mechanisms underlying this behaviour are little …

Studies of insect navigation have demonstrated that insects possess an interesting and
sophisticated repertoire of visual navigation behaviours. Ongoing research seeks to help us …

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Visual landmarks guide humans and animals including insects to a goal location. Insects,
with their miniature brains, have evolved a simple strategy to find their nests or profitable …

It is known that ants learn long visually guided routes through complex terrain. However, the
mechanisms by which visual information is first learned and then used to control a route …

Publisher Summary This chapter begins with a brief description of natural routes and then
discusses what landmark memories are and how they are used for guidance. Because the …