Learning walks and landmark guidance in wood ants (Formica rufa)
Learning walks and landmark guidance in wood ants (Formica rufa)
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木蚁（Formica rufa）的学习行走和地标引导
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发表时间：
1999
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Thomas S. Collett
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作者：
D. J. Nicholson;S. D. Judd;B. A. Cartwright;Thomas S. Collett
我们已经研究了木蚁的一种行为模式，它在某些方面类似于蜜蜂和黄蜂的学习飞行，而在其他方面又不同。从新发现的食物源返回巢穴的木蚁会回头看喂食器附近的地标，但喂食器本身不会吸引持续的注视。当蚂蚁靠近喂食器时，地标检查的频率最高，当蚂蚁离开时，福尔斯会下降。与学习飞行一样，当蚂蚁熟悉周围环境并在很长一段时间后重新出现而不觅食时，出发时对地标的检查变得不那么频繁。黄蜂和蜜蜂的学习飞行与蚂蚁的这种假定的学习行为之间的主要区别是蚂蚁强调地标固定。蚂蚁和蜜蜂在一系列变换的地标中寻找目标时的移动方式不同。我们已经探索，使用计算机模拟，是否可以解释这种差异的突出蚂蚁给匹配的地标在正面视野。
We have examined a behaviour pattern in wood ants which in some respects resembles and in other respects differs from the learning flights of bees and wasps. Wood ants returning to their nest from a newly discovered food source turn back and look at landmarks near to the feeder, but the feeder itself does not attract sustained fixations. The frequency of landmark inspections is highest when the ant is close to the feeder and falls as the ant moves away. In common with learning flights, inspections of landmarks on departure become less frequent as ants become familiar with their surroundings and reappear after a long interval without foraging. A principal difference between the learning flights of wasps and bees and this putative learning behaviour in ants is the emphasis that ants place on landmark fixation. Ants and honeybees move differently when searching for a goal within an array of transformed landmarks. We have explored, using computer simulation, whether this difference can be explained by the prominence ants give to the matching of landmarks viewed in the frontal visual field.