The flight paths of honeybees recruited by the waggle dance
The flight paths of honeybees recruited by the waggle dance
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10.1038/nature03526
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发表时间：
2005-05-12
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64.8
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Menzel, R
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作者：
Riley, JR;Greggers, U;Menzel, R
在蜜蜂的“舞蹈语言”（1,2）中，舞蹈者产生一个特定的编码信息，描述了与新食物来源的蜂巢的方向和距离，并且该信息在空间和时间上都被舞蹈者发现该来源的位置所取代。卡尔·冯·弗里施得出结论，蜜蜂被这种舞蹈“招募”，利用舞蹈中编码的信息直接引导它们找到遥远的食物来源，这一获得诺贝尔奖的发现揭示了我们所知道的最复杂的非灵长类动物交流的例子（3,4）。尽管最初有一些怀疑（5-9），现在几乎所有的生物学家都相信von Frisch是正确的（3,4,10-14），但是迄今为止缺乏的是对新兵如何有效地将舞蹈中的代码转化为飞往目的地的定量描述。使用谐波雷达（15-17）来记录被招募蜜蜂的实际飞行路径，我们现在提供了这样的描述。
In the 'dance language' of honeybees(1,2), the dancer generates a specific, coded message that describes the direction and distance from the hive of a new food source, and this message is displaced in both space and time from the dancer's discovery of that source. Karl von Frisch concluded that bees 'recruited' by this dance used the information encoded in it to guide them directly to the remote food source, and this Nobel Prize-winning discovery revealed the most sophisticated example of non-primate communication that we know of(3,4). In spite of some initial scepticism(5-9), almost all biologists are now convinced that von Frisch was correct(3,4,10-14), but what has hitherto been lacking is a quantitative description of how effectively recruits translate the code in the dance into flight to their destinations. Using harmonic radar(15-17) to record the actual flight paths of recruited bees, we now provide that description.