Insect navigation: visual panoramas and the sky compass.
A new behavioural study shows that honeybees remember visual panoramas in a compass-based coordinate frame, linking together stored visual features of the panorama and signals from their sun-based compass.
Collett
Thomas S
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Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. t.s.collett@sussex.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D006702:Homing Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D013472:Sunlight; D014796:Visual Perception