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Journal of Experimental Biology· 2026Q1

Aggressive conflict used as landmark information in homing desert ants

Antonio Bollig, Marília Freire, Konrad Bücking, Jana Kühnapfel et al.

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Tunisian desert ants (Cataglyphis velox) use aggressive social interactions with foreign conspecifics as a navigational cue to update their homing vector, expanding their nest search pattern when path integration errors occur.

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