Bees dance directions
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The waggle dance encodes direction and distance.
Transcript
0:00 Bees tell each other the way with a dance.
0:02 Returning from a rich patch of flowers,
0:05 a bee performs a waggle dance:
0:07 the direction points the way to fly,
0:09 and its length shows how far.
0:11 Through this language of movement,
0:14 the hive can find food kilometres away.