Honeybees' speed depends on dorsal as well as lateral, ventral and frontal optic flows

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Portelli, Geoffrey ^a   Ruffier, Franck ^a   Roubieu, Frédéric L ^a   Franceschini, Nicolas ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VELOCITY; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; ANIMAL; BEE; FLYING; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BEES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL;

EID: 79955936002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019486     Document Type: Article

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