Desert Navigator : : The Journey of an Ant / / Rüdiger Wehner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Wehner, Rüdiger,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2020
• שפה: English
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource (400 p.)

Cataglyphis ants can set out across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home. Rüdiger Wehner has devised elegant experiments to unmask how they do it. Through a lively and lucid narrative, he offers a firsthand look at the extraordinary navigational skil...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Prologue
• 1. Setting the Scene
• 2. The Thermophiles
• 3. Finding Directions
• 4. Estimating Distances
• 5. Integrating Paths
• 6. Using Landmarks
• 7. Organizing the Journey
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Illustration Credits
• Index