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Science 2 November 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4418, pp. 571 - 573
DOI: 10.1126/science.206.4418.571
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Bees Have Rules

MICHAEL L. BRINES 1 and JAMES L. GOULD 2

1 Rockefeller University, New York 10021
2 Department of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08450

Honey bees frequently dance with some view of the sky, orienting themselves to the sun or natural patterns of polarized skylight. Three new conventions have been discovered in the dance language which are used in these circumstances to eliminate potential ambiguity in the dance message.

Submitted on November 20, 1978


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