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Cataglyphis ants can set out across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home. Rudiger Wehner has devised elegant experiments to unmask how they do it. Through a lively and lucid narrative, he offers a firsthand look at the extraordinary navigational skills of these charismatic creatures.

It is now generally accepted for a variety of reasons - morphological as well as physiologica- that the visual systems of arthropods provide a suitable model for the study of information proces sing in neuronal networks. Unlike the neurophysiology of the visual pathway in the frog and the cat which is more than adequately documented, recent work on the compound eye and optical ganglia of spiders, crustaceans, and insects has scarcely been summarized. In order to fill this void so that others, especially vertebrate neurophysiologists may become familiar with the advan tages of these systems,...

Das gesamte notwendige Wissen der Zoologie§- Umfassend von Molekular- und Zellbiologie über Physiologie,Neurobiologie, Ökologie, Genetik,Ethologie, Evolution, Tierstämme ...§- Gut verständlicher, ausführlicher Text, klarer Gesamtaufbau§- intensive farbige Bebilderung§- kurz gefasste Beschreibung der zoologischen Systematik