Honeybee waggle dance and its effect on foraging success

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  • ミツバチの尻振りダンスと採餌行動における効果
  • ミツバチ ノ シリ フリ ダンス ト サイジ コウドウ ニ オケル コウカ

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It is well established that honeybees inform their nestmates of the location of flowers they have visited by a unique behavior called a “waggle dance" discovered by Karl von Frisch who received Nobel Prize in 1973. On a vertical comb, the direction of the waggle run relative to gravity indicates the direction to the food source relative to the sun in the field, and the duration of the waggle run indicates the distance to the food source. By doing dance, a bee colony achieves an efficient foraging and a social adaptation to dynamically changing circumstance around a hive. Therefore, this behavior is also good model for communication mechanism and for adaptive behavior at a colony level. From this reason, even after publishing his famous book in 1963, many papers still have been published to show new interpretations of this sophisticated communication system. Here I will review dance behavior, with a great interest in dance information, based on our recent results as well as literatures from mainly behavioral analyses, but also neurophysiology, anatomy, and computer simulation. Finally, I will introduce the latest topics and discoveries that excite engineers as well as biologists.

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