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Night‐time sun‐compass behaviour of honey bees at the equator
Author(s) -
EDRICH WOLFGANG
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
physiological entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-3032
pISSN - 0307-6962
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1981.tb00254.x
Subject(s) - equator , compass , biology , azimuth , honey bees , geodesy , latitude , ecology , physics , astronomy , geography , cartography
. In accordance with the peculiarities of the sun's azimuthal path near the equator, African honey bees observed in their night‐time dances apparently allowed for the azimuth moving backwards at night relative to its day‐time movement. In several cases the bees evidently inferred the actual azimuthal position of the sun, rather than the one that would result from extrapolating a uniform movement of the sun.