title: Too much noise on the dance floor: Intra- and inter-dance angular error in honey bee waggle dances.
abstract: Successful honey bee foragers communicate where they have found a good resource with the waggle dance, a symbolic language that encodes a distance and direction. Both of these components are repeated several times (1 to > 100) within the same dance. Additionally, both these components vary within a dance. Here we discuss some causes and consequences of intra-dance and inter-dance angular variation and advocate revisiting von Frisch and Lindauer's earlier work to gain a better understanding of honey bee foraging ecology.
authors.affiliation: Social Evolution Research Group; School of Life Sciences; University of Sussex; Brighton, UK.
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schürch
authors.forename: Margaret J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Couvillon
keywords: animal communication; foraging; honey bee; signal noise; waggle dance