Frisch, Karl von

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Frisch, Karl von (1886–1982)An Austrian zoologist who was joint winner (with KonradLorenz and NikolaasTinbergen) of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their studies of animal behaviour. Von Frisch specialized in insect behaviour and in the 1940s showed that bees can navigate by the Sun and perform dances to communicate to other members of their hive the location of food sources (see dance language). He also discovered that fish have an acute sense of hearing.

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