Birds and social insects represent excellent systems for understanding visually guided
navigation. Both animal groups use surrounding visual cues for homing and foraging. Ants …

Using featural cues such as colour to identify ephemeral food can increase foraging
efficiency. Featural cues may change over time however; therefore, animals should use …

Animals are often assumed to use highly conspicuous features of a goal to head directly to
that goal ('beaconing'). In the field it is generally assumed that flowers serve as beacons to …

Simple Summary Remembering food resources is important for survival. Animals differ in
their strategies to remember resources; some use spatial information, and others resource …

Animals often respond differently to the same environmental cues. Where behavioural
responses differ consistently between individuals over time or contexts, this is “personality” …

One of the challenges for conservation biologists is to modify the behavior of species of
concern (eg, threatened species, pests) to either attract them to or repel them from a given …

Spatial memory is critical to the survival of all mobile animals. Using spatial memory animals
find and keep valuable resources such as shelter, food and companionship. In a series of …