Thanks for the link and also love your bee with glasses :D!
“The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one big thing.” – Archilochus
Honeybees Know a Lot About Nothing
Bees got plenty of nothin’, and nothin’s plenty for bees...
It took humans awhile to recognize zero in their counting systems. From Wiki:
Ancient Egyptian numerals were base 10. They used hieroglyphs for the digits and were not positional. By 1770 BC, the Egyptians had a symbol for zero in accounting texts. The symbol nfr, meaning beautiful, was also used to indicate the base level in drawings of tombs and pyramids and distances were measured relative to the base line as being above or below this line.
You would not believe how many people have argued with me that it is possible to divide by zero. I love the debates over what nothing actually means. How many nothings can you have? Is zero infinite? If I put zero into something is the next zero unique or the same?
Well, maybe not quite. A white card with fewer symbols (0 included) is brighter than one with more symbols. If bees are responding to brightness differences, then no concept of 0 is necessary. Newborn babies by the way do respond to differences in brightness and the greater the difference, the more likely or more intense the response.
Were they Asian bees?
A lot of Americans have no concept of zero, but voted for him anyway...
...twice!
Chemical Communication in the Honey Bee Society
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK200983/
Honeybee Communication: A Signal for Danger
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221000240X
“Waggle dance” is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share, with other members of the colony, information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations.[1][2]
The waggle dance and the round dance are two forms of dance behaviour that are part of a continuous transition. The round dance occurs for resources that are nearby (typically less than 10–20 m from the nest for Apis mellifera ligustica).
As the distance to the resource increases, the round dance transforms into the waggle dance. However, even close to the nest, the round dance can contain elements of the waggle dance, such as a waggle portion.[3]
It has therefore been suggested that the term “waggle dance” is better for describing both the waggle dance and the round dance.[4] Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch was one of the first who translated the meaning of the waggle dance.[5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance
Why do honeybees dance?
The orientation of the dancing bee during the straight portion of her waggle dance indicates the location of the food source relative to the sun.
The angle that the bee adopts, relative to vertical, represents the angle to the flowers relative to the direction of the sun outside of the hive.
Feb 23, 2016
The Honey Bee Dance Language | NC State Extension Publications
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/honey-bee-dance-language
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