跳舞的蜜蜂
蜜蜂是靠跳舞的方式与频率来传达信息的。 他们没有语言,但先天性地都会按一定的图形“跳舞“。
- the sickle dance, in this case the food source is 20-60 feet from the hive.
- the number of times per mintues the bee dance( a complete pattern) indicate the distance from the food source/food quality or direction。
The bees' dance is an effective system of communication, capable, in principle, of infinitely many different messages, and in this sense the bees' dance is infinitely variable, like human language.
But unlike human language, the communication system of the bees is confined to a single subject. It is frozen and inflexible. For example, an experimenter forced a bee to walk to the food source. When the bee returned to the hive, it indicated a distance twenty-five times farther away than the food source actually was. The bee had no way of communicating the special circumstances or taking them into account in its message. This absence of creativity makes the bees' dance qualitatively different from human language.
For bee language is not a learned phenomenon, but appears genetically predetermined. As Rosin aptly points out, “honeybee dances, which are neither learned from experienced dancers nor discovered in a crude manner and perfected through practice, must be instinctive (i.e., genetically predetermined).” In other words, bees do not go through a period of language acquisition as humans do, but are able to use their language as soon as they can forage.
Bee tail-wagging Dance
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