Two odometers in honeybees?

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Authors

Dacke, M

Srinivasan, Mandyam V

Publisher

The Company of Biologists Ltd

Abstract

Although several studies have examined how honeybees gauge and report the distance and direction of a food source to their nestmates, relatively little is known about how this information is combined to obtain a representation of the position of the food

Keywords

Keywords: animal; article; bee; depth perception; distance perception; feeding behavior; flying; physiology; videorecording; Animals; Bees; Distance Perception; Feeding Behavior; Flight, Animal; Space Perception; Video Recording; Apis mellifera; Apoidea Apis mellifera; Celestial compass; Honeybee; Odometer; Path integration

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/56672

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Experimental Biology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1242/jeb.021022

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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