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Speeding Up Social Waves. Propagation Mechanisms of Shimmering in Giant Honeybees

Shimmering is a defence behaviour in giant honeybees (Apis dorsata), whereby bees on the nest surface flip their abdomen upwards in a Mexican wave-like process. However, information spreads faster than can be ascribed to bucket bridging, which is the transfer of information from one individual to an...

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Autores principales: Kastberger, Gerald, Hoetzl, Thomas, Maurer, Michael, Kranner, Ilse, Weiss, Sara, Weihmann, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3903527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24475104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086315