Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Minimal Cognition approach has emerged
vigorously, focusing on the study of the adaptive behavior of the simplest organisms …

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 …

Over recent years there has been an accumulation of evidence from a variety of
experimental, theoretical, and field studies that many organisms use a movement strategy …

In this paper we propose a model of visually guided route navigation in ants that captures
the known properties of real behaviour whilst retaining mechanistic simplicity and thus …

Foragers of many ant species learn long, visually guided routes between their nest and
profitable feeding grounds [1–3]. The sensorimotor mechanisms underpinning the use of …

Summary On leaving the nest [1–9] or a newly discovered food site [10–12] for the first time,
bees and wasps perform elaborate flight maneuvers to learn the location of their goal and …

In many animals the ability to navigate over long distances is an important prerequisite for
foraging. For example, it is widely accepted that desert ants and honey bees, but also …

Honeybees use visual cues to relocate profitable food sources and their hive. What bees
see while navigating, depends on the appearance of the cues, the bee's current position …

The foraging strategies used by animals are key to their success in spatially and temporally
heterogeneous environments. We hypothesise that when a food source at a known location …

The capacity to explore soft tissue structures in detail is important in understanding animal
physiology and how this determines features such as movement, behaviour and the impact …