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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frisch, Karl von, author.

Contributor:

Chadwick, Leigh E.

Seeley, Thomas D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abeille.

Etologia Animal.

Insetos Em Geral (Biologia).

Tiere (Zoologie).

Animal communication.

Animal orientation.

Bees.

Insects--Behavior.

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.

Local Subjects:

Animal communication.

Animal orientation.

Bees.

Insects--Behavior.

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (591 p.): Zahlr. Abb.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 what he discovered in a lifetime of study about honeybees--their methods of orientation, their sensory faculties, and their remarkable ability to communicate with one another. Thomas Seeley's new foreword traces the revolutionary effects of von Frisch's work, not just for the study of bees, but for all subsequent research in animal behavior. This new paperback edition also includes an "Appreciation" of von Frisch by the distinguished biologist Martin Lindauer, who was Frisch's protégé and later his colleague and friend.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword to the Paperback Edition / Seeley, Thomas D.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-41877-8

OCLC:

1013942645