دانلود مقاله ISI انگلیسی شماره 92909
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دو نشانه مسیر، مفیدتر هستند برای هدایت مستعمرات مورچه زمانی که آنها متفاوت هستند

عنوان انگلیسی
Two route landmarks are more useful to navigating ant colonies when they are dissimilar
کد مقاله سال انتشار تعداد صفحات مقاله انگلیسی
92909 2018 30 صفحه PDF
منبع

Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)

Journal : Behavioural Processes, Available online 6 March 2018

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پیش نمایش مقاله  دو نشانه مسیر، مفیدتر هستند برای هدایت مستعمرات مورچه زمانی که آنها متفاوت هستند

چکیده انگلیسی

Visual landmarks are important navigational aids to many animals, and when more than one is available their juxtaposition can convey valuable new information to a navigator about progress toward a goal, depending on the landmarks’ comparative distinctiveness. We investigated the effect of presenting rock ant colonies (Temnothorax albipennis) with identical horizontal landmarks either side of their route, versus one horizontal landmark paired with a sloping landmark, as they navigated to a new nest site. Our findings suggest that ants can obtain more navigational information from a combination of dissimilar landmarks: the average tortuosity of the route taken between old and new nests was significantly lower when a horizontal landmark was paired with a monotonically downward sloping landmark (the paths were more direct). The impact on available navigational information from the similarity or dissimilarity of nearby landmarks is likely made through more distinctive visual panoramas, and could be an influential factor in individual and collective animal decision-making about which routes are followed. Furthermore, the effect of landmark complementarity may be relevant to a wide range of species, such as navigating honey bees relying on multiple landmarks, for example a straight line of trees and the sloping brow of a hill.