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How to Communicate with each others

The ethologist Karl von Frisch studied navigation in the honey bee. He showed that honey bees communicate by dance : Round Dance & the waggle dance, in which a worker indicates the location of a food source to other workers in the hive. He demonstrated that bees can recognize a desired compass direction in three different ways: by the sun, by the polarization pattern of the blue sky, and by the earth’s magnetic field. He showed that the sun is the preferred or main compass; the other mechanisms are used under cloudy skies or inside a dark beehive. 

Do we communicate with other species?

Among bees, although they are from different species, bees may understand each other through dances. However, other non-bee species may not understand what bees may want to convey

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