Abstract:Honeybees encode in their waggle dances the vector (distance and direction) of an outbound flight to a food source or a new nest side. Optic flow has been identified as the major source of information in the distance estimation. Additional components of distance estimation were also identified, e.g. the sequence of experienced landmarks. Here we address the question of whether bees also use the landscape memory developed during exploratory orientation flights to estimate distance. We took advantage of the fact… Show more
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