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Experiments show that there is a mechanism which enables bees to measure different angles of stripes on a vertical screen, and what kinds of stimuli may be decisive as sensory input.
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WEHNER, R. Pattern Recognition in Bees. Nature 215, 1244–1248 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151244a0
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