Two spatial memories for honeybee navigation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1447, 2000, Pages 961-968

  Menzel, Randolf ^a   Brandt, Robert ^a   Gumbert, Andreas ^a   Komischke, Bernhard ^a   Kunze, Jan ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Honeybee; Landmark orientation; Navigation; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

HONEYBEE; MEMORY; NAVIGATION; SPATIAL COGNITION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0034701810     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1097     Document Type: Article

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