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A neuron (green and white) in an insect brain (blue) Insect cognition describes the mental capacities and study of those capacities in insects. The field developed from comparative psychology where early studies focused more on animal behavior. [1] Researchers have examined insect cognition in bees, fruit flies, and wasps. [2] [3]
1911 The Strength and Agility of Insects by F. Percy Smith; 1911 La vita delle farfalle by Roberto Omegna and Guido Gozzano; 1960 Secrets of the Ant and Insect World from Walt Disney's 1956 Secrets of Life [1] 1996 Microcosmos by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou is a record of detailed interactions between insects and other small invertebrates.
Bee learning and communication includes cognitive and sensory processes in all kinds of bees, that is the insects in the seven families making up the clade Anthophila. Some species have been studied more extensively than others, in particular Apis mellifera, or European honey bee. Color learning has also been studied in bumblebees.
Cognitive maps Some animals appear to construct a cognitive map of their surroundings, meaning that they acquire and use information that enables them to compute how far and in what direction to go to get from one location to another. Such a map-like representation is thought to be used, for example, when an animal goes directly from one food ...
[1] [2] It excludes films where the antagonists are inhuman insects or a human becomes an insect, such as The Adventures of André and Wally B., Them! or The Fly. [3] [4] It also excludes documentary, scientific and educational films about insects, such as the Secrets of the Ant and Insect World (1960), [5] More than Honey (2012), and The ...
Microcosmos, unlike a number of other nature documentaries, does not feature narration for most of its runtime, incorporating only two brief passages of narration. [3] In the French-language version of the film, these passages are narrated by producer Jacques Perrin, while in the English version, Kristin Scott Thomas serves as narrator.
Animal cognition is the title given to a modern approach to the mental capacities of non-human animals. It has developed out of comparative psychology , but has also been strongly influenced by the approach of ethology and behavioral ecology .
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