Insect navigation en route to the goal: Multiple strategies for the use of landmarks

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 227-235

  Collett, T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; Hymenoptera; Landmarks; Navigation; Visual learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001736932     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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