When1: 1940
When2: 1974
Who: Karl Ritter von Frisch [von Frisch, Karl Ritter]
What: ethologist
Where: Austria/USA
works\ Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language [1950]; Animal Architecture [1974]
Detail: He lived 1886 to 1983. Fish can have color vision and can hear. Special honeybees {scout honeybee} convey information about food-source direction and distance by performing symbolic dances after they return to hive floor. Bee determines direction in reference to Sun or to sky light-polarization angle, detectable by bee compound eye. Dances have a symmetry line, which indicates food-source direction. Dance kinds and speeds indicate food-source distance: slow and round for near and fast, and waggly for far.
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