Working against gravity: horizontal honeybee waggle runs have greater angular scatter than vertical waggle runs
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Working against gravity: horizontal honeybee waggle runs have greater angular scatter than vertical waggle runs.
The presence of noise in a communication system may be adaptive or may reflect unavoidable constraints. One communication system where these alternatives are debated is the honeybee (Apis mellifera) waggle dance. Successful foragers communicate resource locations to nest-mates by a dance comprising repeated units (waggle runs), which repetitively transmit the same distance and direction vector ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0182