Searching behaviour of desert ants, genusCataglyphis (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)

By Rüdiger Wehner, M. Srinivasan. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 2004

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Unraveling the enigma of human intelligence: Evolutionary psychology and the multimodular mind. (2002, background): “For example, having wandered far in search of food in terrain that is often devoid of landmarks, desert ants return home, directly, by a straight line route, a feat they accomplish through vector integration (Wehner & Srinivasan, 1981; Gallistel, 1990).”
Path integration in mammals (2004, background): “An outstanding example of this comes from the desert ant, Cataglyphis fortis, which can return directly to the nest after an outward journey (over featureless terrain) of hundreds of meters (Wehner and Srinivasan, 1981).”
The architecture of the desert ant's navigational toolkit (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2009, background): “The systematic search behaviour displayed when the path integrator has reached its zero state, but the ant has not yet arrived at its nest (WEHNER & SRINIVASAN 1981, MÜLLER & WEHNER 1994) is adapted to this variable uncertainty range, or target probability function, in so far as the search density…”
Goal navigation and island-finding in sea turtles (2008, background): “and locate a tiny nest entrance at the end of long foraging trips (Wehner and Srinivasan, 1981).”