LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Waggle Dance, Italian Bee, Round Dance
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Animal communication & properties of human language (5) allows ambiguity (6) spontaneously acquired via a combo of exposure (environment) and innate capacity for language. Forager bees (female worker bees) communicate info about a food source to other bees. Developed technique to train bees to go to particular food source. Conversion factor: ~75ms of wagging = 100m of distance. Direction of food source: oriented to the angle of the sun relative to the opening of the hive, dance done vertically on the wall of the hive. Round dance: close enough to follow pheromone trail. Quality of food source: duration of waggle run, ~75ms of wagging = 100m, 1sec = 1km, amount of food is communicated by level of excitation and number of repetitions. Precise distance from hive duration of waggle run. Level of excitation and overall duration of dance (# of repetitions) Possibly symbolic if it corresponds to these instead of actual distance.
