How Ants Deal with Confusing Cues/ Curr. Biol., Nov. 22, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 23)

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In this study, Roman Huber and Markus Knaden from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, challenge homing desert ants by manipulating the reliability of the ants’ nest cues. While ants focus their nest search on cues that they have experienced at the nest only, they rather ignore cues that appear at the nest but in addition are omnipresent in the environment.

Check out the paper at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31342-8.

R. Huber and M. Knaden (2017). Homing Ants Get Confused When Nest Cues Are Also Route Cues. Curr. Biol. 27.

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