Traveling in clutter: navigation in the Central Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti

Ken Cheng1, Ajay Narendra, Stefan Sommer

  • 1Centre for the Integrative Study of Animal Behaviour, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. ken@galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au

Behavioural Processes
|December 4, 2008
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