The dancing bees : Karl von Frisch and the discovery of the honeybee language /
We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II, bees communicate the location of food sources to each...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Sensational findings
- Bee vignette I: Victorian bees
- Coming of age in Vienna
- The bees that could
- Bee vignette II: sensing the senses
- Calm before the storm
- In the service of the Reich
- Bee vignette III: deep inside the hive
- State of grace
- Picking up the pieces in postwar Germany
- Coming to America
- Bee vignette IV: seeing bees
- Attack on the dance language.