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 …

Highlights•Animals compare current and desired headings to initiate steering during
navigation.•The insect central complex (CX) encodes head-direction (current heading).•A …

Autonomous outdoor navigation requires reliable multisensory fusion strategies. Desert ants
travel widely every day, showing unrivaled navigation performance using only a few …

Birds, reptiles and insects have the ability to discriminate humidity levels that influence their
survival and geographic distribution. Insects are particularly susceptible to humidity changes …

In the last decades, desert ants have become model organisms for the study of insect
navigation. In finding their way, they use two major navigational routines: path integration …

Important insights into the selection pressures and core molecular modules contributing to
the evolution of pain-related processes have come from studies of nociceptive systems in …

The ability of bees and ants to learn long visually guided routes in complex environments is
perhaps one of the most spectacular pieces of evidence for the impressive power of their …

Desert ants use the polarization of skylight and a combination of stride and ventral optic flow
integration processes to track the nest and food positions when traveling, achieving …

This paper explores current developments in evolutionary and bio-inspired approaches to
autonomous robotics, concentrating on research from our group at the University of Sussex …

Insect pollinators are affected by the spatio-temporal distribution of floral resources, which
are dynamic across time and space, and also influenced heavily by anthropogenic activities …