Day 95 of 365
April 5
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Animals Bee Waggle Dance Communication
Honeybees communicate flower locations through the waggle dance - a figure-eight pattern where the angle relative to vertical indicates direction relative to the sun, and duration indicates distance. This symbolic representation of spatial information shows sophisticated abstract communication in insects. Bees can even communicate about food sources they've never visited based on another bee's dance description.
💡 Did you know?
Bees have dialects - different subspecies perform slightly different waggle dances, like regional accents in human language!
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