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The bee does a round dance by running around in narrow circles and suddenly reversing direction to her original course. The dance may be repeated several times at the same location or some other location.
One of the first people who translated the meaning of the waggle dance was Austrian ethologist Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch.
As the bee gets more excited about the location, she starts to waggle more rapidly. Rapid waggle grabs the attention of the observing bees who, if multiple bees are dancing, have to decide which dance will they follow. Competing bee dancers might even disrupt or fight each other to convince other bees to follow their directions. This dance can consist of more than 100 circuits, and each of them has two phases: the waggle phase and the return phase.
The worker bee’s dance goes something like this:
A bee is running through a small figure-eight pattern
A waggle run followed by a turn to the right and making a half circle back to the starting point
Another waggle run followed by a turn and a half circle to the left
Repeat the steps in a regular alternation between right and left turns after waggle runs
The direction and distance of the food/water source or a potential nesting site are correlated to the direction and duration of waggle runs. The flowers which are in line with the sun are signaled by waggle runs in an upward direction on the vertical combs. An angle to the left or right of the sun is coded by a corresponding angle to the left or right of the upward direction. Since bees might spend a lot of time in the hive, they have to adjust their dance angle to accommodate the changing direction of the sun during the day.
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