Ants can learn to forage on one-way trails.
The trails formed by many ant species between nest and food source are two-way roads on which outgoing and returning workers meet and touch each other all along. The way to get back home, after grasping a food load, is to take the same route on which they have arrived from the nest. In many species...
Main Authors: | Pedro Leite Ribeiro, André Frazão Helene, Gilberto Xavier, Carlos Navas, Fernando Leite Ribeiro |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19337369/pdf/?tool=EBI |
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