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Marilia Freire

@freirilia.bsky.social

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PhD in Ecology. Interested in arthropod behavior and chemical ecology 🐜🦋🕷🕸

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Issue 4 has closed and issue 5 is open. The cover image shows a Tunisian desert ant (Cataglyphis fortis) foraging for dead arthropods in the flat salt pans of Tunisia journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

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Morgan M. Oberweiser @mmoberweiser.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’m really pleased to see this study out recently in @jexpbiol.bsky.social, composed partly of an experiment I helped to develop and run in the field for my master’s thesis. 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

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How a salt pan ant Cataglyphis fortis navigates artificially complex environments

Summary: The desert ant Cataglyphis fortis is adapted to the rather featureless saltpans of Tunisia. However, when facing artificially complex environments, the ants exhibit navigational strategies th...

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