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Treating hummingbirds as feathered bees : a case of ethological cross-pollination

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12/2017
Author
Pritchard, D. J.
Tello Ramos, M. C.
Muth, F.
Healy, S. D.
Keywords
Bees
Cognitive ecology
Foraging
Hummingbirds
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Abstract
Hummingbirds feed from hundreds of flowers every day. The properties of these flowers provide these birds with a wealth of information about colour, space and time to guide how they forage. To understand how hummingbirds might use this information, researchers have adapted established laboratory paradigms for use in the field. In recent years, however, experimental inspiration has come less from other birds, and more from looking at other nectar-feeders, particularly honeybees and bumblebees, which have been models for foraging behaviour and cognition for over a century. In a world in which the cognitive abilities of bees regularly make the news, research on the influence of ecology and sensory systems on bee behaviour is leading to novel insights in hummingbird cognition. As methods designed to study insects in the laboratory are being applied to hummingbirds in the field, converging methods can help us identify and understand convergence in cognition, behaviour and ecology.
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Pritchard , D J , Tello Ramos , M C , Muth , F & Healy , S D 2017 , ' Treating hummingbirds as feathered bees : a case of ethological cross-pollination ' , Biology Letters , vol. 13 , no. 12 , 20170610 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0610
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Biology Letters
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0610
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1744-9561
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© 2017, the Author(s). Published by the Royal Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0610
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12498

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