How bees analyse the polarization patterns in the sky - Experiments and model

Journal of Comparative Physiology A

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 1984, Pages 607-615

  Rossel, Samuel ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; POLARIZED LIGHT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0021244197     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01350213     Document Type: Article

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