Honeybees do not reject dances for 'implausible' locations: reconsidering the evidence for cognitive maps in insects

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 261-269

  Wray, Margaret K ^a   Klein, Barrett A ^b   Mattila, Heather R ^a   Seeley, Thomas D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

animal cognition; Apis mellifera; cognitive map; dance language; honeybee; insight

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; MOTILITY;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 46849107341     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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