Visually guided homing of bumblebees in ambiguous situations: A behavioural and modelling study.

Returning home is a crucial task accomplished daily by many animals, including humans. Because of their tiny brains, insects, like bees or ants, are good study models for efficient navigation strategies. Bees and ants are known to rely mainly on learned visual information about the nest surroundings...

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Main Authors: Charlotte Doussot, Olivier J N Bertrand, Martin Egelhaaf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008272