LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Karl Von Frisch, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Bee Hives

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Hendrikus Van Der Hulst

Document Summary

Ling 1010 lecture 23 - animal communication (bee dance) in. Karl ritter von frisch: austrian ethologist: bees communicate with each other about food sources, with nikolaas tinbergen and konrad lorenz: worked on the bee dance study, won a nobel prize in physiology in medicine 1972. Some bees are scouts; they y out. Gure-8 dance: direction of waggle: direction to y in with reference to the sun, duration of waggle phase: distance away from the hive/ effort needed to reach the food source. Excitement of the waggle: quality of the food source. Unlike the call system, the bee dance may have a syntactic system. The bee dance combines three foreign aspects to create different meaning aspects (direction, duration, intensity) Each of the three aspects are gradient; they have in nite levels: unlike words, such as cat" ( cat is not gradient). These is also communication in ant communities; they use pheromones.