Speeding up social waves. Propagation mechanisms of shimmering in giant honeybees.
Shimmering is a defence behaviour in giant honeybees (Apis dorsata), whereby bees on the nest surface flip their abdomen upwards in a Mexican wave-like process. However, information spreads faster than can be ascribed to bucket bridging, which is the transfer of information from one individual to an...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014
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