Two odometers in honeybees?

Date

2008

Authors

Dacke, M
Srinivasan, Mandyam V

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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

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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

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Journal of Experimental Biology

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Journal article

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