Small-scale navigation in the honeybee: Active acquisition of visual information about the goal

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 253-261

  Lehrer, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active vision; Behaviour; Colour blindness; Depth perception; Edge detection; Honeybee; Image motion; Object ground discrimination; Range estimation; Scanning; Small scale navigation; Turn back and look behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010530058     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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