Animals navigate a wide range of distances, from a few millimeters to globe-spanning
journeys of thousands of kilometers. Despite this array of navigational challenges, similar …

Panoramic views offer information on heading direction and on location to visually
navigating animals. This review covers the properties of panoramic views and the …

Solitary foraging insects display stunning navigational behaviours in visually complex
natural environments. Current literature assumes that these insects are mostly driven by …

The study of comparative cognition bloomed in the 1970s and 1980s with a focus on
representations in the heads of animals that undergird what animals can achieve. Even in …

Central place foragers are faced with the challenge to learn the position of their nest
entrance in its surroundings, in order to find their way back home every time they go out to …

Foraging desert ants are repeatedly presented with the challenge of leaving the nest,
searching the scorching desert landscape to find food, and then transporting it back home …

Solitary foraging ants commonly use visual cues from their environment for navigation.
Foragers are known to store visual scenes from the surrounding panorama for later …

Ants are a globally distributed insect family whose members have adapted to live in a wide
range of different environments and ecological niches. Foraging ants everywhere face the …

Spatial learning is peculiar. It can occur continuously and stimuli of the world need to be
encoded according to some spatial organisation. Recent evidence showed that insects …

Many insects orient by comparing current panoramic views of their environment to
memorised views. We tested the navigational abilities of night-active Myrmecia midas …