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The dancing bees : Karl von Frisch and the discovery of the honeybee language / Tania Munz.
LIBRA QL31.F7 M959 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Munz, Tania, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frisch, Karl von, 1886-1982.
- Frisch, Karl von.
- Bees--Behavior.
- Bees.
- Animal communication.
- Zoologists--Germany--Biography.
- Zoologists.
- Zoologists--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Germany.
- Germany--History--20th century.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Karl von Frisch and the discovery of the honeybee language
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-267) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226020860
- 022602086X
- OCLC:
- 920017434
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