Learn more about the complexities of the honey bee waggle dance and why the audience size matters.

Honey bees don’t just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance ...

In recent years, scientists have carefully deciphered details of the honey bee "waggle dance," which is an advanced form of ...

Scientists have in recent years carefully deciphered details of the dance - an advanced form of social communication in the ...

Honeybees do not simply broadcast directions to food and hope for the best. A new experimental study published in the ...

Honey bees don’t deliver perfect directions unless someone’s watching closely. When their audience shrinks, their famous ...

A honeybee is performing the waggle dance in the center of this photo to communicate the location of a rich nectar source to its nestmates. Heather Broccard-Bell, CC BY-ND The Greek historian ...

A new study by Chinese scientists reveals that the honey bee waggle dance—one of the most famous examples of animal communication—is not a one-way ...

Bees change their waggle dance based on who’s watching, showing that hive communication is more interactive than scientists ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a misguided forbidden experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king could ...