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Does the Earth's Magnetic Field Serve as a Reference for Alignment of the Honeybee Waggle Dance?

The honeybee (Apis mellifera) waggle dance, which is performed inside the hive by forager bees, informs hive mates about a potent food source, and recruits them to its location. It consists of a repeated figure-8 pattern: two oppositely directed turns interspersed by a short straight segment, the “w...

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Autores principales: Lambinet, Veronika, Hayden, Michael E., Bieri, Marco, Gries, Gerhard
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/PMC4277305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25541731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115665