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Complex Learned Social Behavior Discovered in Bee’s Waggle Dance

Posted in futurism

Summary: A bee’s “waggle dance”, an intricate series of motions that signals the location of critical resources to other bees, is improved by social learning and can be culturally transmitted.

Source: UCSD

Passing down shared knowledge from one generation to the next is a hallmark of culture and allows animals to rapidly adapt to a changing environment.