Complex learned social behaviour discovered in bee’s ‘waggle dance’

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Passing shared knowledge from one generation to the next allows animals to rapidly adapt to a changing environment. Now, Professor James Nieh of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California San Diego and his collaborators think they have observed this behaviour in bees as they perform their waggle dance, a method of communicating food sources to others in the hive.

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