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  • Following and attending - two distinct behavior patterns of honeybees in a position to collect the dance information
    Božič, Janko, 1963- ; Abramson, Charles I.
    Summary: The paper further explores the tactile theorv of dance communication.Waggle dances and the behavior patterns of bees near the dancer were videotaped. The subsequent recordings were analyzed ... during slow motion playback and frame by frame. Video analysis showed that some bees performed various behaviors near the dancer and other bees .specifically interacted withthe dancer. Behavior transitions between 11 different events were recordedand analyzed. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated for 34 pairs of observed behavioral events out of SS possible combinations. Factor analysis based on correlation coefficients revealed 4 major factors, which canbe ranked in hierarchical order: (1) patrolling => (2) attending => (3) outer following => (4) inner following. Only bees that performed inner or outer following were able to maintain close contact with the dancer during theentire dance cycle including waggle and return run. Out of 81 bees in the dancers' vicinity, 44 were inner and 17 were outer followers. This paper contributes to the growing literature on the reevaluation of tactile communication, and further supports our previous work that follower bees must be distinguished from attending bees.
    Vir: Mellifera : Türkíye aricilik dergísí : Jounal of beekeeping in Turkey. - ISSN 1302-5821 (Letn. 3, št. 6, 2003, str. 48-55)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2003
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 17356505

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