Bees in two-armed bandit situations: Foraging choices and possible decision mechanisms

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 757-765

  Keasar, Tamar ^a,b   Rashkovich, Ella ^c   Cohen, Dan ^d   Shmida, Avi ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ACHVA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c QBI Enterprises Ltd   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bees; Foraging; Learning; Probability matching; Two armed bandit

Indexed keywords

BEE; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MEMORY;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0036862934     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/13.6.757     Document Type: Article

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