Landscape Learning during Flight Ensures Homing in Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Drones
Landscape Learning during Flight Ensures Homing in Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Drones
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飞行过程中的景观学习确保蜜蜂 (Apis mellifera) 无人机归巢
DOI：
10.1007/s10905-021-09771-3
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发表时间：
2021
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1
通讯作者：
Satoh Toshiyuki
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作者：
Hayashi Shinya;Satoh Toshiyuki
学会导航到一个特定的位置的作用已被广泛研究的觅食环境中的社会hyperteran女性，这带来了资源的殖民地。相反，在其他行为环境中学习的经验性实地研究很少，特别是在交配的情况下。蜜蜂（雄蜂）不为自己和/或他们的群体觅食，但只有在与雌性交配失败后，它们才会返回自己的群体补充燃料。在本研究中，测试是否归巢的无人机的结果，从学习周围的风景，他们的蜂巢，我们比较了归巢的成功之间的无人机发布在熟悉的网站，他们（居民组）和那些发布在不熟悉的网站（运输组）。来自居民组的无人机能够返回蜂巢，而来自运输组的无人机则不能，除了少数几架无人机被释放到靠近站点的地方，为无人机返回蜂巢提供直接的视觉信息。这些结果表明，无人机在飞行过程中了解了它们的蜂巢和周围的景观。
The role of learning to navigate toward a specific location has been extensively studied in the foraging context of social hymenopteran females, which bring resources to the colony. On the contrary, empirical field studies on learning in other behavioral contexts are scarce, particularly in the context of mating.Apis melliferamales (drones) do not forage for themselves and/or for their colony, but they only return to their colony to refuel if they were unsuccessful in mating with a female. In the present study, to test whether homing in drones results from learning the landscape around their hives, we compared the homing success between drones released at sites that were familiar to them (resident group) and those released at unfamiliar sites (transported group). Drones from the resident group were able to return to their hive, whereas those from the transported group could not, with the exception of a few drones that were released close to the sites that offered direct visual information for the drones to return to the hives. These results indicate that drones learn about their hives and the surrounding landscape during their flights.