Wood Ant Homing Trajectories in Complex Woodland Environments

Cornelia Buehlmann published data supporting a 2023 Journal of Learning & Behavior article. The dataset contains paths from individually recorded wood ants during homing experiments in a natural woodland habitat. It includes three long homing trajectories for 20 individual ants.

Use Cases

• Analyze idiosyncratic route fidelity based on individual ant trajectory data.
• Model the interaction between visual navigation and pheromone trail following based on path data in cluttered environments.
• Study habitual route formation in insects based on repeated individual homing trajectories.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed publication accepted in November 2023.
• Includes three long homing trajectories for 20 individual wood ants, providing individual-level detail.

Limitations

• Dataset size is 17.1 KB, indicating a very limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Cornelia Buehlmann

Collection Method

Recorded from wood ants in their natural woodland habitat during homing experiments.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 15:04:26; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Natural woodland habitat (specific location unknown).