How to join a wave: Decision-making processes in Shimmering behavior of Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kastberger, Gerald ^a   Weihmann, Frank ^a   Hoetzl, Thomas ^a   Weiss, Sara E ^a   Maurer, Michael ^b   Kranner, Ilse ^c  

^a Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HONEYBEE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; SHIMMERING BEHAVIOR;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

APIS DORSATA; APOIDEA;

EID: 84860701181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036736     Document Type: Article

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