Error is proportional to distance measured by honeybees: Weber's law in the odometer

Animal Cognition

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-16

  Cheng, Ken ^a   Srinivasan, M V ^b   Zhang, S W ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distance estimation; Honeybee; Odometer; Spatial cognition; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000174737     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710050020     Document Type: Article

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