Bees use three-dimensional information to improve target detection

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-233

  Kapustjansky, Alexander ^a,b   Chittka, Lars ^c   Spaethe, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D vision; Bombus terrestris; Flower detection; Motion parallax; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

BEE; FLOWER VISITING; MODEL TEST; PERCEPTION; VISION;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 77949423178     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-009-0627-5     Document Type: Article

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