How Bees Remember Flower Shapes
- 22 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 227 (4693) , 1492-1494
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.227.4693.1492
Abstract
Bees are able to learn to distinguish between flowers with different shapes or patterns. Some studies have suggested that bees remember only isolated features such as spatial frequency and line angles, rather than the photographic search images that are characteristic of vertebrates. New data indicate that this presumptive vertebrate-invertebrate dichotomy is false; bees can store flower patterns as a low-resolution eidetic image or photograph.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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