The Waggle Dance of the Honeybee

[@ccgatech]

Note: New research suggests that honeybees actually measure distances by the amount of optical information encountered during a flight. The energy model presented in this video derives from earlier work by Karl Von Frisch, but now seems to be refuted by the optical flow model.

[@charliebrownatemybro]

Could you please give us an update?

[@terrieanndiehl58]

Thank you for pointing out the direction for me to follow the bees!

[@TheDLirios]

Mind. Blown. Coursera's Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics course brought me here. From Universiteit Leiden. #HumanLang.

[@Diamondraw4Real]

TheDLirios cool

[@supriyabedi197]

me too

[@helenfhnin]

I'm 4 years late but same.

[@susanharkins9347]

I am taking the course right now! Amazing information.

[@yifeiyang7083]

Me too! I like this course so much

[@andrewflynn6883]

i unironically love bees, they actually make me so happy

[@LilGhostlyX_X]

Then him in the hive boys

[@greg1030]

Dancing's so cute. I also love to hear their buzzing while they dance, which you can hear here kzbin.info/www/bejne/an_Xlpp3hLajidU

[@TomSFox]

Even bees use the metric system.

[@fawazalhoqail4846]

I hope you're sarcastic.

[@TomSFox]

No, I’m not being sarcastic. I really do think the metric system is superior.

[@ragmar6018]

@TomSFox As presented in the film, the bees are using energy expenditure as a measure of distance. The speaker is using the metric system.

[@TomSFox]

Yes, it was a joke. Not sarcasm. Two different things.

[@timtwiggy1233]

TomSFox base 60 is factored to the circle metric does not factor in nature.

[@Urubosrt]

This video in a nutshell: "how could this bee?"

[@audreyfernandes6287]

UnBEElievable

[@onieward]

oh, it bee!

[@belalamelo6113]

Well, you just had to BEE there

[@mariajosebianchi5]

Bees are now my favorites. WOW :) I'm here because of Coursera's Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics. Universiteit Leiden.

[@qbNaith]

+María José Bianchi Me too!

[@amitraohuman]

+qbNaith +María José Bianchi Me three :)

[@milwizz]

Same here! And wow! This is amazing!

[@daps1812]

mee too! haha

[@xinqi1440]

Same here! :)

[@Durrpadil]

Now that I know this... I can't help but think how ingenious and how adorable these little creatures are.

[@ylonmc2]

This shows what many men know intuitively for centuries: that all of nature and all animals are intelligent. The trouble is that it takes a lot of intelligence to spot intelligence different from ours. Von Frisch was undoubtedly a remarkable mind to point out that bees have language just like we do. Awesome little documentary as well.

[@Kalificus]

seems like more instinct than intelligence

[@flynncremin6347]

@@Kalificus which could be argued to be nature’s intelligence

[@Dish.Washer]

@@flynncremin6347 and nature's intelligence could be argued to be randomness in mutations leading to evolution

[@galacticloveteam8813]

@@Dish.Washer There is nothing “random” about how bees navigate mathematical perfection to find food in accordance with the sun as their pivotal navigational tether point.

[@Dish.Washer]

@@galacticloveteam8813 The behavior is not random, I agree. But how thr behavior developed was random

[@andresacosta7645]

the obssession of the human being to measure its sorrounding by gather meticuluosly information to detect inherent patterns is evident in the outcome of this research...Amazing!!!

[@hunterXhuruka]

so cute and chubby... I remember studying about the "8" circles bees do in biology class, but I didn't know these actions contain such accurate information! Very clear and informative clip. Thank you.

[@maksymkinasch4398]

WOW! WOW! WOW! We you teach it not only to biologists, but to theologians and philosophers and people from other field of science! Amazing! Thank you! P.S. I never comment this way below an KZbin video

[@charlatanbaby]

wow! and I have trouble finding the fridge sometimes. Amazin

[@faro7100]

I hope you find it one day

[@hagensteele4447]

Excellent! The visual aids make it very simple to understand exactly what those little ladies are doing. Well done.

[@enginerdtrav]

From a beekeeper who has tried to explain this 100 times - Thank You!

[@clems6belio]

That was the subject of my philosophy class this morning, thank you for the illustration !

[@bananian]

Can I get bees to do my trig test for me?

[@Crick1952]

bananian Yeah, that's what I did! The typical going rate is about 200 calories worth of necter per question.

[@emmarose4234]

I hope we don’t go off in a *tangent!* 🥁

[@elinguiuriel]

coursera @LeidenMOOCs bought me here

[@Crick1952]

Pascal Uriel ELINGUI lol, me too

[@carson6097]

Pascal Uriel ELINGUI Me too!

[@BackpackingDiplomacy]

Pascal Uriel ELINGUI me 3. Very cool video!

[@BrianLokker]

+Pascal Uriel ELINGUI Same here -- very interesting!

[@loofah5672]

+Pascal Uriel ELINGUI me too!

[@mrdeadman007]

Well one can totally choreograph these dance moves by carefully placing food...

[@kennethnielsen935]

I honestly don't know why I like this so much..

[@jasoncarswell7458]

Because evolution is amazing and can "teach" a tiny insect both geometry and sign language? Imagine a human trying to explain 1) he found something useful, 2) how useful it is, 3) how far away it is, and 4) what direction, all without speaking or using his hands. Now shrink his brain by 100x and take away every advantage mammals have in social communication.

[@makemarker]

@@jasoncarswell7458 a blind man finds sight pretty fascinating, he doesn't really understand what is sight as we live it but to him in this sense, we are like superbeings. Point, we are all amazing in many ways.

[@infinitels5304]

This was so cool. I have to do a project on Karl Von Frisch's studies of honey bees and this was really educational and helpful. Keep up the good work!

[@erenyeager1660]

Same :) It's really cool

[@AB-ft7ng]

Animals are so much more intelligent than we want to admit. They deserve our protection, not the exploitation and suffering we continue to cause them.

[@Mjiujtsu]

Wow, bees have an understand of expected utility of the food :p that's better understanding of economics than a lot of humans

[@yeahyou7536]

Fascinating.

[@laurakf1519]

how can someone watch this and still believe it's all work of an explosion, rather than the intentional design on an intelligent being?

[@sherrybrittowinters5348]

Very interesting. They are very precise in their designing of the cone. Perfect.

[@elishh8173]

They're soo CUTE!!! I love them!!! Thank You God for creating all your beautiful intelligent little animals like bees!!!!

[@Unsabulous]

this is so amazing :) I wish I wasn't so terrified of bees 'cause they are awesome

[@jennifernolen9138]

Thanks for the video! We used this in our homeschooling lesson for the day!

[@kylahamlin2515]

The design of the dance when overlapped with the duration reminds me of the height and chroma of the pitch helix. Just thought that was neat. Such a great video!

[@philaman1972]

Amazingly brilliant insects.

[@Mr-mr-mr10]

this should be titled why bees are the smartest insects

[@AbsentWithoutLeaving]

Somewhere out here there's a video of a guy who has pet spider (huge variety, can't remember which one) who high fives him.

[@melanienguyen4188]

Pretty neat. Way more interesting then how the instructor introduced it in class. Thank you for the video! :)

[@harmlessbystander621]

I’ve been looking for videos of bees doing the shimmy dance with music dubbed, so far I’ve been unsuccessful :(

[@ccgatech]

@enginerdtrav glad you enjoyed it!

[@Personmr]

bees scare me but ill be damned if they arn't interesting.

[@AbsentWithoutLeaving]

Honeybees aren't troublesome for me...it's wasps that give me the heebie-jeebies. Having been stung by members of a colony that nested in an outdoor stairway of an apartment complex I was staying at, I gained a healthy respect for their sense of vengeance. I swear those suckers knew exactly what time I got home from work and laid in wait for me!

[@0prahTV]

motherfucking bees! what can't they do?

[@Yatukih_001]

Discriminate against disabled people like Tories and Whigs do...

[@KJKP]

An interesting corollary behavior always unaddressed is this: how do the subsequent bees learn from those who preceded them? Do they count? Is there a sense of delay between beginning and end of the dance? Some of the watching bees inside the hive seem to orient themselves parallel to the axis of the waggle walk path.

[@Zoologicalavenue]

Austria is producing great biologists. After Mandel,karl von frish is another mind blowing

[@oriana_fortunato]

when you linguistics teacher makes you watch a video about dancing bees... and you actually really enjoy it

[@mbgal7758]

They are such amazing creatures

[@bugraaydn5113]

This is fascinating

[@punjabiexplorer]

Even bees know more mathematics than I

[@ShyamSharma-gs8tt]

Mind Blown

[@nobodyhere4667]

ahhhhh ! I was wondering about if they new the time changes and sun changes or if it was just a rough estimation. Thank You, very cool :) I am more amazed that humans figured this out than I am that bees communicate in this manner. Well done primates :)

[@lasercass]

Truly amazing! Came here thanks to the Coursera Miracles of Human Language course :)

[@brucesbees]

Extremely cool! I saw this video for the first tike years ago and just watched it again. Very good information. So glad you created this video!

[@cekan14]

This is marvellous.

[@exogendesign4582]

Damn, that must BEE fascinating to watch.

[@notoriousxnena]

this was amazing thank you

[@justice1523]

Nothing short of amazing.

[@zoll2211]

Great for both science and film production classroom use.

[@everyusernametaken11]

There seems to be a couple things off in this video. I don't understand the point made about bees measuring distance in terms of "expended energy"- this is an odd way to phrase it. It would seem they're simply dancing the length of time (or some proxy representation) it took to fly to the food source with given wind (and other) resistances. There would be no other useful way of measuring "true distance" for a bee other than time, assuming the bee is flying at its normal (I guess top) speed. The bee most likely doesn't have the communication abilities to convey "it's 1km away, but it took me 2 minutes." Further, this video mentions that the "central waggle section" of the bee's dance (5:22) corresponds to distance traveled to the food source, yet Von Frisch showed that bees use the entire spin cycle as sort of a constant internal clock, so it's the number of rotations which corresponds time taken/distance to food, not an elongated central waggle section.

[@MrJeffSunny]

How would you test whether or not it's optical information? If that's true, why did Karl Von Frisch come up with the energy model? I think if one found that the distance of a waggle dance isn't affected by a fore or hind wind it would refute the energy model. What new research supports this optical flow model?

[@johnkot3114]

Imagine the first dancing Bee trying to get everyone to understand what he was doing.

[@mikesearles]

Fascinating. Thank you.

[@finding_mahmoud]

Thank you Coursera machine learning clustering course :D

[@lillykainz]

Me too, thanks for the oportunity to watch such an interesting study!!

[@katleach2382]

incredible stuff

[@McLarenF1God]

EXCELLENT! It's finally good to have this mystery solved.

[@TroyMira]

Begs the question about the function of brain in memory storage since this seems entirely somatic - basically a re-enactment of the flight. Thanks for the share.

[@ShahJahan572]

"Be Like the Bees" brought me here...

[@adriancalma3508]

Bee twerking is so sophisticated

[@galacticloveteam8813]

I would like to see more studies done on the frequency vibration rates of bees in accordance with the Earth’s Schumann Resonance and the Sun’s resonance and also the electro magnetic aspect of bees in accordance with finding food and even attracting pollen.

[@SymothyD]

0:12 bee trips and falls. "Ugh.. Damnit" gets back up and leaves.

[@SrEngr]

It would be cool to get an AI to back out the "waggle dance" from video of the bees. Could an AI manage a colony from the inside with a "virtual" (robot or image) of a bee. If it could, then we could get AI beekeepers to track feeding, and correlate it with mortality. It might also be able to protect the hive by interfering with communications about sweet, but deadly, food sources.

[@bolengerin]

Would be really useful, especially with pesticide residue exposure testing for colony behavior

[@1103MusikBerlin]

your style is awesome

[@Outcrankin]

Incredible

[@santiagoarcesueldo3687]

Thank you so much for this video!! I use it to teach in my General and Applied Linguistics class!!!

[@merveilleuxetmagique]

Thank you, that was awesome! Very clearly explained!

[@LaurettaASMR]

this is very interesting! well done

[@RSTAR2009]

Unbeelievable!

[@Libbyyyyyyyyyy]

Ramon LeBlanc Harts yeaahhhh!

[@andresa1963]

I love bees.... and I have never ever been beating by one. Maybe because I love them... they just might feel this. ...who knows.... they are awesome.

[@SisyphusTwo]

Fascinating...

[@LuisLascanoValarezo]

This is amazing! Can't wait to take part in research at GT!

[@peterhauser9205]

This is incredible!

[@chunqiu17]

I love it!

[@pranavjags4065]

I AM NOT HERE FROM Coursera !

[@duncanjames914]

Incredible!

[@stansmith4054]

Truely amazing animals!

[@Zoologicalavenue]

Thanks to prof. Karl von Frisch for decoding bee dance and shit to noble prize academy for taking 50 or more years to award him one.

[@Cooriander]

Clear and interesting!

[@nehagoyal8508]

great work

[@barnibussnaples6561]

Fun fact: some bees are terrible navigators and other bees stop “listening” to them

[@AbsentWithoutLeaving]

OMG, bees have reputations!

[@cheeze6850]

wow! everyday i wake up and find fascinating things about the world we live in (i am also here from coursera hah)

[@amadeuswoodhull6724]

that's so amazing

[@Dadszinnias]

I have a hive in my chimney way up high, and no beekeeper wants to deal with them, so I am stuck with them....this is their third season in my tall chimney. Your film helps me understand them

[@AbsentWithoutLeaving]

Cool bees!

[@DewBee1]

Where can I find that cool blue feeder ??

[@graydoubleb4913]

Bees communicate. Bees communicate intelligently also. Bees also do not like the ending of your documentary but I guess it shall come back at the documentation also.

[@carschmn]

The painted bees are so cute.

[@manbeefcake]

That's fucking bananas, dude!

[@briangalloway4193]

The bees had to learn to do this because they had no GPS.

[@thetitanian5544]

bees have tons more forms of communication

[@edergreen5140]

I could sit and listen to this oer and over again, well done clever clogs!! ;)

[@docvix80]

Amazing

[@inezvandenbroek4519]

Super informatief en mooi in beeld gebracht

[@enesprtc]

The mind boggles!

[@ing360]

I love hope they tie this behavior in with robotics

[@SisyphusTwo]

Absolutely spot on...the yanks will try and tell us bees use the imperial system...

[@sulin2279]

from Coursera Linguistics by Leiden University.

[@rkaiii1]

Thank you for your prompt reply. I think the video is very well done and informative.