Overnight memory retention of foraging skills by bumblebees is imperfect

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 95-104

  Keasar, Tamar ^a   Motro, Uzi ^b   Shur, Yoav ^b   Shmida, Avi ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING KILL; MEMORY;

APIDAE; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0030176773     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0155     Document Type: Article

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