Honeybee odometry: Performance in varying natural terrain

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Tautz, Juergen ^a   Zhang, Shaowu ^b   Spaethe, Johannes ^a,c   Brockmann, Axel ^a   Si, Aung ^b   Srinivasan, Mandyam ^b  

^a Lehrst Verhaltensphysiol S   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FLIGHT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HONEYBEE; LANDSCAPE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; RETINA IMAGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ASSOCIATION; BEE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLYING; OPTICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HOMING BEHAVIOR; OPTICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 19344375999     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020211     Document Type: Article

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