The ability to learn the location of places in the world and to revisit them repeatedly is crucial
for all aspects of animal life on earth. It underpins animal foraging, predator avoidance …

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

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 …

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 …

Animals that move through complex habitats must frequently contend with obstacles in their
path. Humans and other highly cognitive vertebrates avoid collisions by perceiving the …

When transitioning from in-nest duties to their foraging life outside the nest, ants perform a
series of highly choreographed learning walks around the nest entrance, before leaving to …

Bees provide vital pollination services to the majority of flowering plants in both natural and
agricultural systems. Unfortunately, both native and managed bee populations are …

Nesting insects perform learning flights to establish a visual representation of the nest
environment that allows them to subsequently return to the nest. It has remained unclear …

At the beginning of their foraging lives, desert ants (Cataglyphis fortis) are for the first time
exposed to the visual world within which they henceforth must accomplish their navigational …

The remarkable navigational abilities of social insects are proof that small brains can
produce exquisitely efficient, robust navigation in complex environments. Because social …