East learns from West: Asiatic honeybees can understand dance language of European honeybees.

The honeybee waggle dance, through which foragers advertise the existence and location of a food source to their hive mates, is acknowledged as the only known form of symbolic communication in an invertebrate. However, the suggestion, that different species of honeybee might possess distinct 'd...

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Main Authors: Songkun Su, Fang Cai, Aung Si, Shaowu Zhang, Jürgen Tautz, Shenglu Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18523550/pdf/?tool=EBI