Sound: An Element Common to Communication of Stingless Bees and to Dances of the Honey Bee
Abstract
Sounds are an important part of the communication behavior, the so-called dances, of the honey bee. Stingless bees, which do not use dances for communication, use sound signals to indicate the existence and, in some cases, the distance of a feeding place. The social organization of communities of stingless bees is more primitive than that of honey bees, yet certain common features of communication behavior in these two groups lead to a new hypothesis of the evolution of dancing behavior of the honey bee.
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Volume 149 | Issue 3681
16 July 1965
16 July 1965
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1965 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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