The Dancing Bees: Karl Von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

The Dancing Bees: Karl Von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language
ISBN-10
022602086X
ISBN-13
9780226020860
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
278
Language
English
Published
2016-05-10
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Tania Munz

Description

Karl von Frisch, in January 1946, deciphered the dancing language of honeybees. Over the previous summer, he had discovered that the bees communicate the distance and direction of food sources by means of the dances they run upon returning from foraging flights. The news of the discovery, which led later to a Nobel Prize, quickly spread across Europe and beyond. The Dancing Bees is a dual biography on the one hand of von Frisch as one of the most innovative and successful scientists of the twentieth century and, on the other, of his honeybees as experimental and especially communicating animals that play a rich role in human culture."

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