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Gap affordance judgments in bumblebees: Same as humans?
Martin Giurfa1,2, Marion Luyat3
1Research Center on Animal Cognition, Center for Integrative Biology, CNRS (UMR 5169), University of Toulouse, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062, Toulouse, France. martin.giurfa@univ-tlse3.fr.
Abstract:
When flying through narrow gaps, bumblebees of different body sizes fly either straightforward or sideways, depending on the relation between their wingspan and the width of the gap (Ravi et al., 2020). They thus behave like humans when walking through narrow passages, which raises the question of the mechanisms underlying their own-body perception.
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