Honeybee Democracy /

Honeybee Democracy / / Thomas D. Seeley.

Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned anim...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Seeley, Thomas D.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 30 color illus. 30 halftones. 26 line illus. 1 table.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PROLOGUE
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. LIFE IN A HONEYBEE COLONY
  • 3. DREAM HOME FOR HONEYBEES
  • 4. SCOUT BEES' DEBATE
  • 5. AGREEMENT ON BEST SITE
  • 6. BUILDING A CONSENSUS
  • 7. INITIATING THE MOVE TO NEW HOME
  • 8. STEERING THE FLYING SWARM
  • 9. SWARM AS COGNITIVE ENTITY
  • 10. SWARM SMARTS
  • EPILOGUE
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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