Why do honey bees dance?
Why do honey bees dance?
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DOI：
10.1007/s00265-003-0726-9
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发表时间：
2004-02-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Chittka, L
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作者：
Dornhaus, A;Chittka, L
蜜蜂的舞蹈语言，用来招募巢友到食物来源，被许多人认为是动物中最有趣的交流系统之一。什么样的生态环境有利于它的进化？我们通过创建实验表型来研究这个问题，在实验表型中，舞蹈的位置信息被掩盖了。令人惊讶的是，在两个温带栖息地，这些殖民地的表现只是微不足道的殖民地，能够正常沟通。然而，觅食效率大大受损，在亚洲热带森林，这种操作。这表明，舞蹈语言沟通的食物来源的位置可能是重要的，在某些栖息地，但在其他人。结合已发表的数据和我们自己的，我们评估了蜜蜂觅食地点在各种栖息地的集群评估蜜蜂的舞蹈。我们发现，所示的网站更集中在热带比温带栖息地。这支持了一个假设，即在觅食的背景下，舞蹈语言是对蜜蜂进化的特定栖息地的适应。我们讨论了我们的研究结果在温带和热带栖息地的花卉食物的空间聚集模式。
The honey bee dance language, used to recruit nestmates to food sources, is regarded by many as one of the most intriguing communication systems in animals. What were the ecological circumstances that favoured its evolution? We examined this question by creating experimental phenotypes in which the location information of the dances was obscured. Surprisingly, in two temperate habitats, these colonies performed only insignificantly worse than colonies which were able to communicate normally. However, foraging efficiency was substantially impaired in an Asian tropical forest following this manipulation. This indicates that dance language communication about food source locations may be important in some habitats, but not in others. Combining published data and our own, we assessed the clustering of bee forage sites in a variety of habitats by evaluating the bees' dances. We found that the indicated sites are more clustered in tropical than in temperate habitats. This supports the hypothesis that in the context of foraging, the dance language is an adaptation to the particular habitats in which the honey bees evolved. We discuss our findings in relation to spatial aggregation patterns of floral food in temperate and tropical habitats.