Compensation to visual impairments and behavioral plasticity in navigating ants
S. Schwarz, L. CLEMENT, L. Haalck, B. Risse, A. Wystrach
This study shows that ants encode visual memories in a binocular, egocentric manner, and can compensate for visual impairment by re-learning routes with one eye, forming novel memories without erasing previous ones.
bioRxiv · Feb 20, 2023Animal Behavior & Cognition