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Radar solves mystery of bees' dances
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One of the most enduring disputes in the world of dance has been
solved by scientists in research published recently.
Long before Strictly Dance Fever, bees apparently strutted their
stuff to tell other hive members the whereabouts of nectar and
pollen.
The "waggle dance," a code that shows the distance and direction
of newly-discovered food, was first described by the zoologist Karl
von Frisch. After some dispute, this discovery would earn him a Nobel
prize in 1973.
He be...
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Radar solves mystery of bees' dances
China Daily
; One of the most enduring disputes in the world of dance has been solved by scientists in research published recently. Long before Strictly Dance Fever, bees apparently strutted their stuff to tell other hive members the whereabouts of nectar and pollen. The "waggle dance," a code that shows the
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New dancer in the hive; an insect imposter helps scientists decipher honeybee lingo.
Science News
; New Dancer in the Hive A bee or not a bee? That is the question. The answer: It's not a bee at all. But members of the hive can hardly tell the difference. That's why entomologists express such excitement about recent experiments with a European robot honeybee. Ever since German researcher Karl von
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My Eve was tempted by a glass of ale
The Independent - London
; When we celebrate St Valentine's on Tuesday, I am hoping my love will join me in a Waggle Dance. This ritual was, as I am sure you are aware, first described in detail by the Viennese sensory physiologist and Nobel prize-winner Karl von Frisch (1886-1982). The dance, in which the abdomen is waggled
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WIN YOUR WEIGHT IN BEER.(Features)
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
; WIN your own weight in real ale! That's the prize from the Sunday Mercury today. Waggle Dance is the unusual beer with the unusual name. Light and delicate, it brings a new taste to the summer months. To celebrate the season of lazy picnics and long warm evenings, Waggle Dance has teamed up with
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Quantum honeybees.(research on honeybee behavior)
Discover
; How could bees of little brain come up with anything as complex as a dance language? The answer could lie not in biology but in six-dimensional math and the bizarre world of quantum mechanics. Honeybees don't have much in the way of brains. Their inch-long bodies hold at most a few million neurons.
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A BEE'S LIFE TELLS US ABOUT OURSELVES
The Boston Globe
; Even as kids, 50 years ago, we heard about Karl von Frisch and the dancing bees. Von Frisch was an Austrian zoologist who discovered something most people thought impossible: Bees have what some have called the second most sophisticated language in the animal kingdom - after our own. A foraging bee
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Trimble.
Point of Beginning
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bees have a highly evolved form of communication known as the waggle dance. Upon finding a nectar source, a bee returns to the hive to share its exact location by performing the waggle dance for other waiting bees. Simple, elegant and mind-blowingly accurate, the waggle dance
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Bees log flight distances, train with maps.(Brief Article)
Science News
; ... late von Frisch and adds, I think he would be convinced. Another team of bee watchers used specialized radar to make the first maps of bee training flights. Without at least one orientation flight before it begins to forage, a displaced bee can't find its way ...
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Dances with bees.(critical mass: genes)
Science & Spirit
; The flight of the bumblebee may inspire music, but the waggle dance displays true artistry. With that in mind, Gene Robinson, a professor of integrative biology and entomology and director of the neuroscience program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, or UIUC, is investigating how
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Young's opens on eBay.(Marketing: BEERS--WINES--SPIRITS)(Young's Brewery)(Brief Article)
Grocer
; Young's Brewery is exploring new ways to encourage consumer sampling with a Waggle Dance Shop on eBay. The company wanted to increase sampling activity for its quirky honey-infused Waggle Dance ale--Young's top bottled beer in the UK--so it decided to target users of eBay. We are hoping to blaze a
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