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 relative to the sun, and the run's duration encodes the distance. Karl von Frisch spent decades decoding this symbolic language and won a Nobel Prize for it in 1973.

— Karl von Frisch, The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees — Harvard University Press, 1967
Go deeper: get the book →