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Karl von Frisch: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Karl von Frisch, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• A bee tells her whole hive exactly where breakfast is by dancing a figure eight

  Back at the hive, a forager honeybee runs a figure-eight pattern, waggling her abdomen along the straight middle stretch: the angle of that run relative to straight-up encodes the …

  — Karl von Frisch, The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees

• A bee tells her hive exactly where food is by dancing a figure eight

  When a forager honeybee finds a good food source, she returns to the hive and performs a 'waggle dance': the angle of her waggling run relative to vertical encodes the direction re…

  — Karl von Frisch, The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees

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