Transposition of flower height by bumble bee foragers (Bombus impatiens)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 85-89

  Wiegmann, Daniel D ^a   Wiegmann, Douglas A ^b   MacNeal, James ^a   Gafford, Jennifer ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Foraging; Relational learning; Transposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012352052     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710000064     Document Type: Article

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