Thursday, February 25, 2010

the waggle dance!!!



I heard about this on the podcast for To The Best of Our Knowledge, episode "Hive Mind." Get this, so...bees tell other bees where good flowers are by doing a dance. The dance gives the other bees directions to the flowers. The bees also use this dance to communicate the location of other resources as well.

As the graph says, if the bee waggles for one second in a certain direction, it means that the flowers are one kilometer in that direction! Two seconds = two kilometers, etc. AMAZING!

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