The dung beetle dance: An orientation behaviour?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Baird, Emily ^a   Byrne, Marcus J ^b   Smolka, Jochen ^a   Warrant, Eric J ^a   Dacke, Marie ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NONHUMAN; SCARABAEUS NIGROAENEUS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; FECES; ORIENTATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TERRITORIALITY;

COLEOPTERA; KHEPER; SCARABAEUS;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CUES; FECES; HOMING BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 84855920375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030211     Document Type: Article

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