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Bees dance to talk to their hive. How do they do it?
Come look at one of nature's linguistic wonders: the bee waggle dance. This dance is so surprisingly communicative that it often gets called a language!
The length of the "waggle" part of the waggle dance contains distance information. The angle of the waggle run communicates the direction.
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/B/BeeDances.html
Other info might be hiding in the waggle dance, like familiarity, with experienced bees noticing the smell of a familiar flower:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602683
The dancer bee might circle around for fewer waggle runs if the destination is dangerous, with some help from scents and good old fashioned bee headbutting:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347209002656
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221000240X
If we compare other bees in other parts of the world, we even find waggle dialects and the possibility of social learning:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002365
Audio, art, music and animation by nativlang
Bees dance to talk to their hive. How do they do it?
Come look at one of nature's linguistic wonders: the bee waggle dance. This dance is so surprisingly communicative that it often gets called a language!
The length of the "waggle" part of the waggle dance contains distance information. The angle of the waggle run communicates the direction.
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/B/BeeDances.html
Other info might be hiding in the waggle dance, like familiarity, with experienced bees noticing the smell of a familiar flower:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602683
The dancer bee might circle around for fewer waggle runs if the destination is dangerous, with some help from scents and good old fashioned bee headbutting:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347209002656
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221000240X
If we compare other bees in other parts of the world, we even find waggle dialects and the possibility of social learning:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002365
Audio, art, music and animation by nativlang
