Psychology 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Waggle Dance, Animal Communication, Ethology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

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Even flashing lights such as in a firefly: this communication is most often conspecific meaning that it"s with members of the same species, but interspecies communication and interspecies eavesdropping can occur. Food: austrian ethologist karl von frish (1967) first deciphered the honeybee waggle dance in the mid-twentieth century. Although, scientists were aware of the bee dance, it was von frisch who put it all together: when honeybee returns to her nest, hundreds of hive mates will gather around her, and she"ll perform a figure eight dance. She"ll start with a waggle-run, followed by a turn to the right to circle back to her starting point. Then she"ll do the waggle- run again, this time circling back on the left. This led him to learn that the waggle dance gave hive mates 2 pieces of information: direction and distance: dance is performed on vertical surface of the honeycombs.