The Dance
More than half a century ago, Karl von Frisch rocked the world
of behavioral biology with his conclusion that the honeybees (Apis mellifera) can actually communicate the distance
to and direction of valuable food sources through an elaborate “waggle dance.”
In what later led to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,
von Frisch determined that bees recruited by this dance used the information
encoded in it to guide them directly to the remote location of the resource.
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