Adaptive control of odor-guided locomotion: Behavioral flexibility as an antidote to environmental unpredictability

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 217-253

  Belanger, Jim H ^a,b   Willis, Mark A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flight; Fluid dynamics; Moth; Olfaction; Orientation; Pheromone; Search behavior; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0030298918     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971239600400302     Document Type: Article

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