Bee Waggle Dance
... both of which are measured on the duration of the dance. Von Frisch’s study is right on the same topic as the notes and lecture about Animal Behavior. Animals have many different behaviors, from innate or instinctive to learned. The Bee Waggle Dance would have to be a learned behavior, because there would have to be a presence in order to initiate the dance. However, I think that it has to be part innate, because it says that they all know or recognize the dance. After hearing our lecture, I would compare this to the monkeys that take the rice with the sand to the ocean. Where the sand sinks and the rice floats, making it much easier for all the monkeys to eat. The Bee Dance is much more complex than anything we learned about in class related to animal behavior. The bees not only recognize the dance, they measure how long the dance was, and then calculate how far away they have to travel to the food. After reading the lecture, and reviewing our notes, I perso...