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Research shows that social learning significantly enhances a honey bee's ability to perform the complex waggle dance, which communicates food source location. Inexperienced bees who observed older bees learn from them and improve their dance accuracy over time.
Coverage from 3 institutions
- Social signal learning enhances a honey bee’s waggle dance performance American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) · Mar 9, 2023 · first to report
- Complex learned social behavior discovered in bee’s ‘waggle dance’ University of California - San Diego · Mar 9, 2023
- Honey bees use social learning to improve waggle dancing Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters · Mar 9, 2023