Loose Leaf For Integrated Principles Of Zoology
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ISBN: 9781260411140
Author: Cleveland P Hickman Jr. Emeritus, Susan L. Keen, David J Eisenhour Professor PhD, Allan Larson, Helen I'Anson Associate Professor of Biology
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 36, Problem 15RQ
Dance language used by returning forager honeybees to specify location of food is an example of remarkably complex communication among “simple” animals. How is direction and distance information coded into the waggle dance of the bees? What is the purpose of the round dance?
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