Interpatch foraging in honeybees-rational decision making at secondary hubs based upon time and motivation

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1195-1203

  Najera, Daniel A ^a   McCullough, Erin L ^b   Jander, Rudolf ^c  

^a WASHBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching routes; Cognitive mapping; Conditional logic; Decision making; Honeybee; Route map

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; BEES; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 84867735596     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0544-4     Document Type: Article

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