Who’s Watching Matters: Honey Bees Change Their Famous Dance in Surprising Ways
For decades, the honey bee waggle dance has been treated as a near-perfect example of one-way communication in nature. A foraging bee returns to the hive, performs a patterned movement, and nearby bees decode the message to locate food. The new study challenges that long-held assumption. Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), part […]