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unusual facts about waggle dance


Waggle dance

Both low- and high-frequency components emitted by dancing bees induce passive antennal movements in stationary bees according to Coulomb's law.


Tremble dance

The tremble dance was first described by Karl von Frisch in the 1920s (who was also first to describe the waggle dance), but no light was shed on its function until 1993 when Wolfgang Kirschner discovered that, when performed, the dance stopped nearby workers from flying to gather more nectar.


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