Do honeybees have two discrete dances to advertise food sources?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1291-1300

  Gardner, Kathryn E ^a   Seeley, Thomas D ^a   Calderone, Nicholas W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; dance language; honeybee; Karl von Frisch; round dance; waggle dance

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; HONEYBEE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 40849146881     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.032     Document Type: Article

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