SOCIAL LEARNING Social signal learning of the waggle dance in honey bees
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Dong, Shihao; Lin, Tao; Nieh, James C.; Tan, Ken
署名单位：
Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS; University of California System; University of California San Diego
刊物名称：
SCIENCE
ISSN/ISSBN：
0036-12754
DOI：
10.1126/science.ade1702
发表日期：
2023-03-10
页码：
1015-1018
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摘要：
Honey bees use a complex form of spatial referential communication. Their waggle dance communicates the direction, distance, and quality of a resource to nestmates by encoding celestial cues, retinal optic flow, and relative food value into motion and sound within the nest. We show that correct waggle dancing requires social learning. Bees without the opportunity to follow any dances before they first danced produced significantly more disordered dances with larger waggle angle divergence errors and encoded distance incorrectly. The former deficit improved with experience, but distance encoding was set for life. The first dances of bees that could follow other dancers showed neither impairment. Social learning, therefore, shapes honey bee signaling, as it does communication in human infants, birds, and multiple other vertebrate species.