Spatial generalization in honeybees confirms Shepard's law

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-316

  Cheng, Ken ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HONEYBEE; SPATIAL COGNITION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS;

APIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0033017780     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00038-2     Document Type: Article

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