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SUBMITTER: Okada R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3935192 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Okada Ryuichi R Ikeno Hidetoshi H Kimura Toshifumi T Ohashi Mizue M Aonuma Hitoshi H Ito Etsuro E
Scientific reports 20140226
The honeybee waggle dance communicates the location of profitable food sources, usually with a certain degree of error in the directional information ranging from 10-15° at the lower margin. We simulated one-day colonial foraging to address the biological significance of information error in the waggle dance. When the error was 30° or larger, the waggle dance was not beneficial. If the error was 15°, the waggle dance was beneficial when the food sources were scarce. When the error was 10° or sma ...[more]