The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees /

The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees / / Karl von Frisch.

Until his death in 1982, Karl von Frisch was the world's most renowned authority on bees. The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees is his masterwork--the culmination of more than fifty years of research. Now available for the first time in paperback, it describes in non-technical language wha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
VerfasserIn:
Frisch, Karl von,
TeilnehmendeR:
Chadwick, Leigh E.
Seeley, Thomas D.
MitwirkendeR:
Seeley, Thomas D.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1993
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (566 p.) :; 187 halftones, 267 line illustrations, 45 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword to the Paperback Edition
  • An Appreciation of Karl von Frisch
  • Preface
  • Part One. The Dances of Bees
  • I. Historical
  • II. Methods in General
  • III. The Round Dance as a Means of Communication when Nectar Sources Are Nearby
  • IV. The Tail-Wagging Dance as a Means of Communication when Food Sources Are Distant
  • 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE TAIL-WAGGING DANCE
  • 2. THE TRANSITION FROM THE ROUND DANCE TO THE TAIL–WAGGING DANCE
  • 3. COMPARISON OF NECTAR AND POLLEN COLLECTORS
  • A. THE INDICATION OF DISTANCE
  • 4. THE TEMPO OF THE DANCE
  • 5. THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNAL FACTORS ON THE DANCE TEMPO
  • 6. THE INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL FACTORS ON THE TEMPO OF DANCING
  • 7. HOW ACCURATELY CAN NEWCOMERS FOLLOW THE DISTANCE INDICATIONS? STEPWISE EXPERIMENTS (STUFENVERSUCHE)
  • 8. WHAT PART OF THE TAIL–WAGGING DANCE IS THE SIGNAL THAT DEFINES THE DISTANCE?
  • 9. HOW DOES THE DANCER ESTIMATE THE DISTANCE?
  • 10. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE OUTWARD AND THE HOMEWORD FLIGHT IN THE INDICATION OF DISTANCE
  • 11. THE SHAPE OF THE CURVE FOR DISTANCE
  • B. THE INDICATION OF DIRECTION
  • 12. FIRST HINTS OF THE MODE OF INDICATING THE DIRECTION OF THE GOAL
  • 13. THE INDICATION OF DIRECTION ON A HORIZONTAL SURFACE
  • 14. THE INDICATION OF DIRECTION ON THE SURFACE OF A VERTICAL COMB
  • 15. DANCES ON AN OBLIQUE COMB SURFACE
  • 16. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE INDICATION OF DIRECTION, AND THE INFLUENCE OF AGE
  • 17. COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF ROUND DANCES AND TAIL–WAGGING DANCES
  • 18. HOW PRECISELY IS THE INDICATION OF DIRECTION FOLLOWED BY THE NEWCOMERS? EXPERIMENTS IN A FAN–SHAPED PATTERN
  • 19. DANCES WHEN THE SUN IS IN THE ZENITH
  • 20. NO INDICATION OF DIRECTION UPWARD OR DOWNWARD
  • 21. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE OUTBOUND AND HOMEBOUND FLIGHTS FOR THE INDICATION OF DIRECTION
  • 22. DETOUR EXPERIMENTS
  • 23. THE INDICATION OF DIRECTION IN A CROSSWIND
  • 24. “MISDIRECTION”
  • 25. THE ROLE OF THE SCENT ORGAN AND FLORAL ODORS WITH DISTANT SOURCES OF FOOD
  • 26. WE LOOK FOR A FEEDING STATION FROM DIRECTIONS SUPPLIED BY THE BEES
  • V. Dependence of the Dances on the Profitability of Foraging Activity
  • VI. Guidance by Scent
  • VII. Application of the Dances to Other Objectives
  • VIII. Other Dance Forms
  • IX. Danceless Communication by Means of Sounds and Scents
  • X. Variants of the “Language of the Bees”
  • XI. Phylogeny and Symbolism of the “Language of the Bees”
  • Part Two. The Orientation of Bees on the Way to the Goal
  • XII. Orientation on Long–Distance Flights
  • XIII. Orientation When Near the Goal
  • Retrospect
  • References
  • Index

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