But these huge tabular blocks can also put obstacles in the way of animals trying to get to familiar feeding grounds.
Perhaps the familiar feeding spot drew in additional attention.
Ants use these navigational strategies not only for localizing the nest, but also for returning to a familiar feeding site.
Do ants on the way to a familiar feeding site only respond to the food odour when they are close to the expected feeder position?
Here, we test whether ants on the way to a familiar feeding site also do not respond to a food odour when they are still far away from the expected feeder location.
Tests assessed individual responses to two novel objects placed during two test sessions in the familiar feeding dish (an oval white opaque dish 11 cm long × 3 cm high).
Consistent with the idea that serotonin increases feeding via SER-7 in response to familiar food, the feeding rates of ser-7 null mutants on familiar food were substantially decreased compared to wild type.
Fourteen weeks were needed on average for lynx to become familiar with feeding stations and making a regular use of the supplementary food.
They've built in lots of functionality that will be immediately familiar: news feeds, profiles, friends, blogs, photo galleries, status updates, etc.
The project follows a familiar path, feeding the algorithm a bunch of medical images of the retina to train it to look for diabetic retinopathy, which is a condition believed to affect around 1/3 of diabetes patients.
