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Insect Navigation: Measuring travel distance across ground and through air

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2006

Authors

Collett, Matthew
Collett, Thomas S
Srinivasan, Mandyam V

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Cell Press

Abstract

Walking insects probably monitor leg movements to estimate how far they travel, whereas flying insects monitor optic flow.

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Keywords: animal; ant; bee; depth perception; flying; gait; locomotion; orientation; physiology; short survey; vision; Animals; Ants; Bees; Flight, Animal; Gait; Locomotion; Orientation; Space Perception; Visual Perception; Hexapoda; Insecta

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/38332

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Open Access Research

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Current Biology

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Journal article

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DOI

10.1016/j.cub.2006.09.027

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2037-12-31

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