East learns from West: Asiatic honeybees can understand dance language of European honeybees.

The honeybee waggle dance, through which foragers advertise the existence and location of a food source to their hive mates, is acknowledged as the only known form of symbolic communication in an invertebrate. However, the suggestion, that different species of honeybee might possess distinct 'd...

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Autores principales:	Songkun Su, Fang Cai, Aung Si, Shaowu Zhang, Jürgen Tautz, Shenglu Chen
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7d56b06ac9bd4ab888f30160a52792de2021-11-25T06:12:14ZEast learns from West: Asiatic honeybees can understand dance language of European honeybees.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0002365https://doaj.org/article/7d56b06ac9bd4ab888f30160a52792de2008-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18523550/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The honeybee waggle dance, through which foragers advertise the existence and location of a food source to their hive mates, is acknowledged as the only known form of symbolic communication in an invertebrate. However, the suggestion, that different species of honeybee might possess distinct 'dialects' of the waggle dance, remains controversial. Furthermore, it remains unclear whether different species of honeybee can learn from and communicate with each other. This study reports experiments using a mixed-species colony that is composed of the Asiatic bee Apis cerana cerana (Acc), and the European bee Apis mellifera ligustica (Aml). Using video recordings made at an observation hive, we first confirm that Acc and Aml have significantly different dance dialects, even when made to forage in identical environments. When reared in the same colony, these two species are able to communicate with each other: Acc foragers could decode the dances of Aml to successfully locate an indicated food source. We believe that this is the first report of successful symbolic communication between two honeybee species; our study hints at the possibility of social learning between the two honeybee species, and at the existence of a learning component in the honeybee dance language.Songkun SuFang CaiAung SiShaowu ZhangJürgen TautzShenglu ChenPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 3, Iss 6, p e2365 (2008)
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description	The honeybee waggle dance, through which foragers advertise the existence and location of a food source to their hive mates, is acknowledged as the only known form of symbolic communication in an invertebrate. However, the suggestion, that different species of honeybee might possess distinct 'dialects' of the waggle dance, remains controversial. Furthermore, it remains unclear whether different species of honeybee can learn from and communicate with each other. This study reports experiments using a mixed-species colony that is composed of the Asiatic bee Apis cerana cerana (Acc), and the European bee Apis mellifera ligustica (Aml). Using video recordings made at an observation hive, we first confirm that Acc and Aml have significantly different dance dialects, even when made to forage in identical environments. When reared in the same colony, these two species are able to communicate with each other: Acc foragers could decode the dances of Aml to successfully locate an indicated food source. We believe that this is the first report of successful symbolic communication between two honeybee species; our study hints at the possibility of social learning between the two honeybee species, and at the existence of a learning component in the honeybee dance language.
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title	East learns from West: Asiatic honeybees can understand dance language of European honeybees.
title_short	East learns from West: Asiatic honeybees can understand dance language of European honeybees.
title_full	East learns from West: Asiatic honeybees can understand dance language of European honeybees.
title_fullStr	East learns from West: Asiatic honeybees can understand dance language of European honeybees.
title_full_unstemmed	East learns from West: Asiatic honeybees can understand dance language of European honeybees.
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East learns from West: Asiatic honeybees can understand dance language of European honeybees.

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