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Still no convincing evidence for cognitive map use by honeybees
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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.
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Ants forage for food along meandering paths but take near-optimal return trips, though there is controversy about whether insects like ants and bees are capable of forming maps.
“Ants forage for food along meandering paths but take near-optimal return trips (Müller & Wehner, 1988), though there is some controversy about whether insects like ants and bees are capable of forming maps (Cruse & Wehner, 2011; Cheung et al., 2014).”
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“Ants forage for food along meandering paths but take near-optimal return trips (M¨uller & Wehner, 1988), though there is some controversy about whether insects like ants and bees are capable of forming maps (Cruse & Wehner, 2011; Cheung et al., 2014).”
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- Cheung, A., Collett, M., Collett, T. S., Dewar, A., Dyer, F., Graham, P., Mangan, M., Narendra, A., Philippides, A., Stürzl, W., Webb, B., Wystrach, A., & Zeil, J.
- Affiliations
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Michigan State University (US)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- Australian National University (AU)
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Zeil, Jochen
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2014-10-02
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 42
- Pages
- E4396-7
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4210289
- OpenAlex
- W2156035230
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1
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- journal article
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- en
- Open access
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- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Lincoln Repository (University of Lincoln) (acceptedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/I031758/1)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/I014543/1, 1090672)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Keywords
- Apis mellifera, cognitive maps, spatial learning, bee navigation, animal cognition, landmark learning
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Bees, Cognition, Homing Behavior
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