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Honeybees use optic flow to measure the distance of a food source

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Esch, H.E., Burns, J.E. Honeybees use optic flow to measure the distance of a food source. Naturwissenschaften 82, 38–40 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01167870

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