Exploration behaviour and behavioural flexibility in orb-web spiders: A review

Current Zoology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 313-327

  Hesselberg, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Behavioural plasticity; Cognitive maps; Exploration behaviour; Spider web building; Stigmergy

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84925451648     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/61.2.313     Document Type: Article

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