How to join a wave: decision-making processes in shimmering behavior of Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata).

Shimmering is a collective defence behaviour in Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata) whereby individual bees flip their abdomen upwards, producing Mexican wave-like patterns on the nest surface. Bucket bridging has been used to explain the spread of information in a chain of members including three testab...

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Main Authors: Gerald Kastberger, Frank Weihmann, Thomas Hoetzl, Sara E Weiss, Michael Maurer, Ilse Kranner
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/56d5ce0978da4ffaa685132365e893a8
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