Honey bees communicate distance via non-linear waggle duration functions
Honey bees (genus Apis) can communicate the approximate location of a resource to their nestmates via the waggle dance. The distance to a goal is encoded by the duration of the waggle phase of the dance, but the precise shape of this distance-duration relationship is ambiguous: earlier studies (befo...
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PeerJ Inc.
2021-04-01
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