Many animals can navigate toward a goal they cannot see based on an internal
representation of that goal in the brain's spatial maps. These maps are organized around …

Continuously monitoring its position in space relative to a goal is one of the most essential
tasks for an animal that moves through its environment. Species as diverse as rats, bees …

In the last decades North African desert ants of the genus Cataglyphis FOERSTER, 1850–
and more recently their ecological equivalents in the Namib desert (Ocymyrmex EMERY …

Insect navigation is strikingly geometric. Many species use path integration to maintain an
accurate estimate of their distance and direction (a vector) to their nest and can store the …

The Central Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti is the most thermophilic ant on the
continent. It comes out to forage during the hottest part of the day in the summer months. The …

Path integration is a strategy by which animals track their position by integrating their self-
motion velocity. To identify the computational origins of bias in visual path integration, we …

Path integration is a navigational strategy that gives an animal an estimate of its position
relative to some starting point. For many decades, ingenious and probing behavioural …

Foraging desert ants are repeatedly presented with the challenge of leaving the nest,
searching the scorching desert landscape to find food, and then transporting it back home …

In a synthetic approach to studying navigational abilities in desert ants, we review recent
work comparing ants living in different visual ecologies. Those living in a visually rich habitat …

Solitary foraging insects, such as ants, maintain an estimate of the direction and distance to
their starting location as they move away from it, in a process known as path integration. This …