The Effect of Trail Pheromone and Path Confinement on Learning of Complex Routes in the Ant Lasius niger

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-335902
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.33590

Czaczkes, Tomer J. ; Weichselgartner, Tobias ; Bernadou, Abel

; Heinze, Jürgen

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Abstract

Route learning is key to the survival of many central place foragers, such as bees and many ants. For ants which lay pheromone trails, the presence of a trail may act as an important source of information about whether an error has been made. The presence of trail pheromone has been demonstrated to support route learning, and the effect of pheromones on route choice have been reported to persist ...