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A bee zooms back to its busy hive and starts wiggling and dancing in a special pattern to tell all its friends exactly where the best flowers are.
A bee does a waggle dance to tell other bees where to find flowers. Moving in a figure-eight inside the hive, the dancing bee's angle and speed encode which direction and how far the best flowers are.
A bee doesn't hum a song or leave a honey trail; those aren't real ways bees communicate. The waggle dance is their actual, precise method for passing along this information.
This dance was decoded by scientist Karl von Frisch, who found its angle relative to straight up mirrors the flower's direction to the sun, a discovery that won a Nobel Prize.
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