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The Dance in the Dark

How honeybees tell each other where the flowers are

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Wren: 32 min · Hollis: 34 min

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Your chapters

  1. The box under the cloth

    observation hive, comb, colony, forager

  2. A small white dot

    scout, nectar, waggle run, waggle dance, dance floor, dance follower, recruit

  3. Straight up stands for the sun

    sun compass, gravity, polarized light, waggle duration, round dance, optic flow

  4. Who decides

    collective decision, nectar receiver, tremble dance, stop signal

  5. Goodnight, Speck

    the wind-down