Ant visual route navigation: How the fine details of behaviour promote successful route performance and convergence.

ABSTRACT: Individually foraging ants use egocentric views as a dominant navigation strategy for learning and retracing routes. Evidence suggests that route retracing can be achieved by algorithms which use views as 'visual compasses', where individuals choose the heading that leads to the most familiar visual scene when compared to route memories. However, such a mechanism does not naturally lead to route approach, and alternative strategies are required to enable convergence when off-route and for correcting on-route divergence. In this work we investigate how behaviour incorporated into visual compass like route learning and recapitulation strategies might enable convergence to a learned route and its destination. Without alterations to the basic form of the initial learning route, the most succes

SUBMITTER: Amin AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12445746 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature