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The Dung Beetle Dance: An Orientation Behaviour?

An interesting feature of dung beetle behaviour is that once they have formed a piece of dung into a ball, they roll it along a straight path away from the dung pile. This straight-line orientation ensures that the beetles depart along the most direct route, guaranteeing that they will not return to...

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Autores principales: Baird, Emily, Byrne, Marcus J., Smolka, Jochen, Warrant, Eric J., Dacke, Marie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3261170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22279572
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030211