Honeybees Learn Landscape Features during Exploratory Orientation Flights

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 2800-2804

  Degen, Jacqueline ^a   Kirbach, Andreas ^a   Reiter, Lutz ^a   Lehmann, Konstantin ^a   Norton, Philipp ^a   Storms, Mona ^a   Koblofsky, Miriam ^a   Winter, Sarah ^a   Georgieva, Petya B ^a   Nguyen, Hai ^a   Chamkhi, Hayfe ^a   Meyer, Hanno ^a   Singh, Pawan K ^a   Manz, Gisela ^a   Greggers, Uwe ^a   Menzel, Randolf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

displacement; exploration; harmonic radar; honeybee; learning; navigation; orientation flight

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; FLYING; GERMANY; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; BEES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GERMANY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; ORIENTATION, SPATIAL;

EID: 84994691336     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.013     Document Type: Article

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