Increase in dance imprecision with decreasing foraging distance in the honey bee Apis mellifera L. is partly explained by physical constraints

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 191, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1107-1113

  Beekman, Madeleine ^a   Doyen, Laurent ^a   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dance accuracy; Directional information; Honey bees; Tuned error hypothesis; Waggle dance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BEE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLYING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL;

EID: 28344439864     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-005-0034-0     Document Type: Article

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