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Still no convincing evidence for cognitive map use by honeybees

Year: 2014

Type: letter

Abstract: Cheeseman et al. (1) claim that an ability of honey bees to travel home through a landscape with conflicting information from a celestial compass proves the bees' use of a cognitive map. Their claim involves a curious assumption about the visual information that can be extracted from the terrain: that there is sufficient information for a bee to identify where it is, but insufficient to guide its path without resorting to a cognitive map. We contend that the authors’ claims are unfounded.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413581111

Authors: Allen Cheung, Matthew Collett, Thomas S. Collett, Alex Dewar, Fred Dyer, Paul Graham, Michael Mangan, Ajay Narendra, Andrew Philippides, Wolfgang Stürzl, Barbara Webb, Antoine Wystrach, Jochen Zeil

Institutions: The University of Queensland, University of Exeter, University of Sussex, Michigan State University, University of Edinburgh, Australian National University, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR)

Language: English

Topic: Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Subfield: Insect Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Awards: Insect-inspired visually guided autonomous route navigation through natural environments, Bayesian issues in ant navigation, G6137671633

OpenAlex ID: W2156035230

Cites: 5

Cited by: 80

Related to: 10