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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
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Furst wurst get rekt m8s! bzzz!! ;3
Wow I never knew that Bee communication is that complex. It even includes Maths O.O
what do i do if a bee dabs?
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I had read the original paper, but I'm so glad that you made this animation! It's really well done and very clear. You deserve 100x more views.
Even bees use the metric system.
Sorry, don't buy it. They just buzzing around and having a little waggle cause they happy they found pollen and the others didn't. It's like a bees version of a football player scoring a goal and goading the opposition. That's what these bees are doing – goading. That's why the other bees look so pissed while the dance occurs.
OH GODDAMNIT THE BEES USE THE METRIC SYSTEM!!!
-sir do you know why I pulled you over
-no
-you were going seventy five waggle waggles per hour when the speed limit was sixty
That sounds fascinating. Honestly though 1Km seems far too imprecise for a bee to find something. I couldn't locate a hospital with 0.3km variance.
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Of course the waggle-waggle language has different dialects! I, my self, speak whiggle-whoggle.
Waggle waggle waggle, bzzt. Waggle waggle, bzzzzz? Hummm wiggle wiggle waggle!
Awesome! Its polar coordinate system
According to all known laws of aviation…
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Great, the bees use the metric system : 1 km by 1 sec wiggling
And the shape of the dance look like a Feynman diagram.
OMG, they are talking about quantum physics!
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Nice video
Bees go for the nectar not the pollen. Pollen in honey would be awful.
The sun is not fixed in the sky relative to earth/hive though. How do they account for this?
This seems so fake
When bees are better at maths and how to follow a compass than you are
Bees also also Master of maths