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DOI	10.1163/1568539X-bja10016
	The effect of food preference, landmarks, and maze shift on maze-solving time in desert ants
	Saar, Maya; Hershkovitz, Dar; Amano, Orin; Bega, Darar; Subach, Aziz; Scharf, Inon
通讯作者	Scharf, I
来源期刊	BEHAVIOUR
ISSN	0005-7959
EISSN	1568-539X
出版年	2020
卷号	157 期号:7 页码:629-665
英文摘要	We studied how food type and available landmarks affect spatial learning in the ant Cataglyphis niger while searching for food in a maze. We expected the ants to solve the maze faster with consecutive runs, when the preferred food type is offered, and in the presence of landmarks. Ants should also solve the maze more slowly following a mirror-route switch in the maze. As expected, maze-solving improved when searching for a preferred food type than a less preferred one, as determined in a separate food preference experiment. In contrast, adding landmarks to the maze had only little effect on maze-solving and the number of searching workers. Switching the route to a mirror-imaged route in the maze delayed maze-solving and required more workers to search for food. Our findings extend the knowledge on the ants' learning abilities and demonstrate how foragers detect food faster when offered a high-ranking food item.
英文关键词	Cataglyphis food choice foraging landmarks reward-related learning spatial learning maze
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000549782400002
WOS关键词	PATH-INTEGRATION ; HONEY-BEES ; SUCROSE RESPONSIVENESS ; LEARNING-PERFORMANCE ; FORAGING EFFICIENCY ; SEARCHING BEHAVIOR ; HABITAT COMPLEXITY ; SPATIAL MEMORY ; MINI-BRAIN ; CATAGLYPHIS
WOS类目	Behavioral Sciences ; Zoology
WOS研究方向	Behavioral Sciences ; Zoology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/325085
作者单位	[Saar, Maya; Hershkovitz, Dar; Amano, Orin; Bega, Darar; Subach, Aziz; Scharf, Inon] Tel Aviv Univ, Fac Life Sci, Sch Zool, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Saar, Maya,Hershkovitz, Dar,Amano, Orin,et al. The effect of food preference, landmarks, and maze shift on maze-solving time in desert ants[J],2020,157(7):629-665.
APA	Saar, Maya,Hershkovitz, Dar,Amano, Orin,Bega, Darar,Subach, Aziz,&Scharf, Inon.(2020).The effect of food preference, landmarks, and maze shift on maze-solving time in desert ants.BEHAVIOUR,157(7),629-665.
MLA	Saar, Maya,et al."The effect of food preference, landmarks, and maze shift on maze-solving time in desert ants".BEHAVIOUR 157.7(2020):629-665.