Pattern discrimination in a hawkmoth: Innate preferences, learning performance and ecology

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1509, 2002, Pages 2573-2577

  Kelber, Almut ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Insect; Learning; Lepidoptera; Motivation; Pattern discrimination; Vision

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; MOTH; NECTAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; FLOWER; INSECT; LEARNING; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 0037160232     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2201     Document Type: Article

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