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12/06/1982 Zoologist Karl von Frisch dies

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The Waggle Dance of the Honeybee

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Figure 8 Dance - How do bees communicate?

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Dancing Honeybee Using Vector Calculus to Communicate

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Bee Dance Language - the linguistics behind animal language

Karl von Frisch was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973. With Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz, he established the science of ethology - the study of animal behavior. In his famous book, Aus dem Leben der Bienen (translated into English as The Dancing Bees), Frisch decoded the meaning of the waggle dance, a strange behavior which bees use to signal the location of flowers with nectar.