Sugar intake elicits a small-scale search behavior in flies and honey bees that involves capabilities found in large-scale navigation
Axel Brockmann, Satoshi Murata, Naomi Murashima, Ravi Kumar Boyapati, Manal Shakeel, Nikhil G. Prabhu, Jacob J. Herman, Pallab Basu, Teiichi Tanimura
The paper compares sugar-elicited search behavior in flies and honey bees, showing it involves path integration and landmark learning, mechanisms also used in large-scale navigation.
bioRxiv · Aug 1, 2017 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition