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 food's direction relative to the sun, and its duration encodes the distance. Karl von Frisch spent decades decoding this 'dance language,' work that won him the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

— Karl von Frisch, The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees — Harvard University Press, 1967 (German original 1965)
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