How honeybees find a place: Lessons from a simple mind

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-15

  Cheng, Ken ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; STEREOTYPY; VISION;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 0034117959     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199768     Document Type: Article

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