fisherB10: B.10 Directions of desert ants

In circular: Circular Statistics

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.

See Also

N.I. Fisher (1993) Statistical analysis of circular data. Cambridge University Press. Pag. 244-245.

Examples

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

Example output

Attaching package: 'circular'

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    sd, var

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