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fisherB10

B.10 Directions of desert ants

Description

Directions of 11 long-legged desert ants (Cataglyphis fortis) after one eye on each ant was 'trained' to learn the ant's home direction, then covered and the other eye uncovered.

Usage

data(fisherB10)
data(fisherB10c)

Format

fisherB10 is a list (in degrees). fisherB10c contains the same observations in a circular objects.

Source

Personal communication of Prof. Dr. R. Wehner to Prof. N.I. Fisher, experiment described in

R. Wehner and M. Muller (1985) Does interocular transfer occur in visual navigation by ants? Nature, 315, 228-9.

Examples

data(fisherB10c)
res <- plot(fisherB10c$set1)
points(fisherB10c$set2, col=2, plot.info=res)
points(fisherB10c$set3, col=3, plot.info=res)

circular

Circular Statistics

v0.4-93

GPL-2

Authors

Ulric Lund <ulund@calpoly.edu> [aut], Claudio Agostinelli <claudio.agostinelli@unitn.it> [aut, cre], Hiroyoshi Arai <h_arai@aoni.waseda.jp> [ctb], Alessando Gagliardi <gagliardi@stud.unive.it> [ctb], Eduardo Garcia Portugues <edgarcia@est-econ.uc3m.es> [ctb], Dimitri Giunchi <dimitri.giunchi@unipi.it> [ctb], Jean-Olivier Irisson <irisson@normalesup.org> [ctb], Matthew Pocernich <pocernic@ucar.edu> [ctb], Federico Rotolo [ctb]

Initial release

2017-06-26