What can we learn from studies of insect navigation?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-20

  Wystrach, Antoine ^a,b,c   Graham, Paul ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottom up approach; Comparative cognition; Insect navigation; Navigation; Spatial cognition; View based homing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; LEARNING; NAVIGATION; PHYLOGENETICS; SOCIAL INSECT; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPECIALIST; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862666074     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.04.017     Document Type: Article

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