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Record Nr.

UNINA9910590091003321

Autore

Tautz Jürgen

Titolo

Communication Between Honeybees : More than Just a Dance in the Dark / / by Jürgen Tautz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783030994846

9783030994839

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 pages)

Disciplina

591.59

595.799159

Soggetti

Biology

Zoology

Cognition in animals

Neurosciences

Physiology

Psychology

Biological Sciences

Animal Cognition

Neuroscience

Animal Physiology

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology

Comunicació animal

Abelles

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- The struggle for insight -- How research on honeybee communication began -- Research on Bees Flourishes with Karl von Frisch -- The dance language remains a controversial idea -- James L. Gould’s experiments explain some but not all difficulties -- Research focuses on the inside of the hive -- Measurement of the dance figures in Space and Time -- Bees and vectors -- Robo-bees and radar



techniques -- An interim balance sheet -- Swarm behaviour shows bees communicate not only through the dance -- Rethinking communication between bees -- Conclusion -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

How Do Bees Find Flowers? During the history of bee research, scientists have peered deep into the inner life of bee colonies and learned much about the behaviour of these insects. Above all, the bee waggle dance has become a famous and extensively discussed phenomenon. Nevertheless, recent insights reveal that while bees are social insects inside the hive they also communicate with one another outside the hive. In this book, Jürgen Tautz, renowned German bee researcher, provides an entertaining, fresh and enlightened account for lay and professional readers, not only about the fascinating dance language but also about additional remarkable phenomena concerning information exchange between bees.