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- A motion compensation treadmill for untethered wood ants (Formica rufa): evidence for transfer of orientation memories from free-walking training
Summary: We have developed and validated a motion compensating treadmill for wood ants which opens new perspectives to study insect navigation behaviour in a fully controlled manner over ecologically relevant durations.
- Orientation to polarized light in tethered flying honeybees
Summary: Tethered flying bees exhibit polarotaxis under an overhead rotating e-vector stimulus, in which their right-and-left abdominal movements coincide with the rotation of the stimulus, indicating that flying bees utilize e-vector information from the skylight for steering.
- There and back again – a zebra's tale
Highlighted Article: Modelling of high-accuracy GPS recordings shows zebra moving between grazeland and water can navigate using multiple distinct routes; they do not need to use the same route every journey.
- Neuronal circuits and the magnetic sense: central questions
Summary: This paper reviews the circuits that process magnetic information in birds and mice, assesses the utility of emerging technologies and asks questions that are critical for the advancement of the field.
- Electrocommunication in pulse Gymnotiformes: the role of electric organ discharge (EOD) time course in species identification
Summary: Individuals of a syntopic pair of electric fish recognize the electric field emitted by conspecifics by evaluating the whole time course of received signals, rather than power spectral density alone.
- Path integration error and adaptable search behaviors in a mantis shrimp
Summary: Mantis shrimp use path integration, an error-prone navigational strategy, when traveling home. When path integration fails, mantis shrimp employ a stereotyped yet flexible search pattern to locate their homes.
- Route-following ants respond to alterations of the view sequence
Summary: There is a sequence component to route memories in ants, as ants show signs of navigational uncertainty when the familiar sequence of views is suddenly altered.
- Spatial orientation based on multiple visual cues in non-migratory monarch butterflies
Summary: Non-migrating butterflies keep directed courses when viewing a simulated sun or panoramic scene. This suggests that they orient based on multiple visual cues independent of their migratory context.
- Magnetoreception in fishes: the effect of magnetic pulses on orientation of juvenile Pacific salmon
Summary: A magnetic pulse alters the orientation of Pacific salmon, suggesting that the magnetic sense of fish might depend on particles of magnetite.