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n. A dance in the form of a figure eight performed by the honey bee in order to communicate the direction and distance of patches of flowers, water sources, etc.
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Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share, with other members of the colony, information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations. A waggle dance with a very short waggle run used to be characterized as a distinct (round) recruitment dance (see below). Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch was one of the first who translated the meaning of the waggle dance.
Usage examples of "waggle dance".
We do not derive the same sense of meaning from a bee's waggle dance as its companions do.
Even before Karl von Frisch's well-known studies on bee orientation and his interpretation of the waggle dance in the 1910s and 1920s, students of bee behaviour, from fable-writers and apiary-keepers to entomologists, had marveled at the skills, apparent intelligence and capacity to learn of the bees, which seemed very far from being rigidly programmed robots.