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Thewaggledanceis thought to have evolved to aid in communicating information about a new nest site, rather than spatial information about foraging sites.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Bees emit constant and modulated electric fields during thewaggledance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Honey bees are able to direct other bees to food sources through the round dance and thewaggledance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Although the honeybeewaggledancemay involve some arbitrary symbols, they are combined with non-arbitrary ones, much like the subway line symbols.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They use thewaggledancewhen it is farther than this.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Further observations, we are told, showed that the bees performed a sort of 'waggledance' in the hive itself to indicate the distance to sources of food.
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Observations have suggested that different species of honeybees have different dialects of thewaggledance, each species or subspecies dance varying by curve or duration.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Recruited foragers maywaggledanceas well, increasing the recruitment for highly rewarding flower patches.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In bees, knowledgeable workers perform awaggledanceto guide naive workers to an identified food source.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The consumption of ethanol by foraging bees has been shown to reducewaggledanceactivity and increase occurrence of the tremble dance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Honeybees use two kinds of dances to communicatethe round dance and thewaggledance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are two main hypotheses to explain how foragers recruit other workers -- thewaggledanceor dance language theory and the odor plume theory.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It may also spread the scent released during the forager'swaggledance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In temperate habitats, honey bee colonies routinely perform thewaggledance, but can still successfully forage when the dance is experimentally obscured.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Awaggledancewith a very short waggle run used to be characterized as a distinct (round) recruitment dance (see below).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thewaggledancemay be adaptive in some environments and not in others.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Honey bees are known for their specialized dances, such as thewaggledancewhich recruit other bees to the precise location of the food source.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She uses a dance similar to thewaggledanceto indicate direction and distance to others in the cluster.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thewaggledanceis used for communicating more distant nectar sources or pollen sources.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In addition, displacement in thewaggledanceis restricted by the language's lack of creativity and productivity.
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