Most studies describing animal movements have been developed in the framework of
population dispersion or population dynamics, and have mainly focused on movements in …

Amplification processes are an essential component of the collective phenomena observed
in social and gregarious species. In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that a weak …

The relative contribution of visual and chemical components in the orientation of Lasius
niger and Iridomyrmex humilis (Argentine ant) workers during mass recruitment to newly …

Directed and meaningful animal behavior depends on the ability to sense key features in the
environment. Among the different environmental signals, olfactory cues are critically …

Our understanding of how sensory structure design is coupled with neural processing
capacity to adaptively support division of labor is limited. Workers of the remarkably …

Foraging behavior of the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki,
was studied in the laboratory by using two-dimensional foraging arenas containing multiple …

We report here, the first evidence that ants Formica rufa L. exhibit a magnetic compass
response. For a period of seven days, foragers were trained to visit a food source accessed …

The question of how hunger affects locomotory behaviour, in particular how it affects the
kinematics of movement and an animal's interaction with the physical structures in its …

The social properties of insect colonies are sometimes described in seemingly contradictory
terms. As pinnacles of biological complexity they are superorganisms and their emergent …

The black carpenter ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus (DeGeer), a predominantly nocturnal
Formicine ant, responds to a hierarchy of visual and tactile cues when orienting along odor …