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S. Sommer Æ R. Wehner The ant’s estimation of distance travelled: experiments with desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis
Received: 22 August 2003 / Revised: 13 October 2003 / Accepted: 14 October 2003 / Published online: 12 November 2003 Springer-Verlag 2003
Abstract Foraging desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis,mon- input signals to the insect