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| Title |
Honeybee navigation: following routes using polarized-light cues
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| Published in |
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, March 2011
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| DOI | 10.1098/rstb.2010.0203 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
P. Kraft, C. Evangelista, M. Dacke, T. Labhart, M. V. Srinivasan |
| Abstract |
While it is generally accepted that honeybees (Apis mellifera) are capable of using the pattern of polarized light in the sky to navigate to a food source, there is little or no direct behavioural evidence that they actually do so. We have examined whether bees can be trained to find their way through a maze composed of four interconnected tunnels, by using directional information provided by polarized light illumination from the ceilings of the tunnels. The results show that bees can learn this task, thus demonstrating directly, and for the first time, that bees are indeed capable of using the polarized-light information in the sky as a compass to steer their way to a food source. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | 50% |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 131 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 122 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 29 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 28 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 18 | 14% |
| Unknown | 14 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 61 | 47% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 13 | 10% |
| Engineering | 9 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 9 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 11% |
| Unknown | 20 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 February 2023.
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