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Article: China Exclusive: Honeybees able to learn different "dialects", scientists
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- June 5, 2008
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China Exclusive: Honeybees able to learn different "dialects",
scientists By Xinhua Science Writer Yu Zheng
BEIJING, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Honeybees are able to understand the
foreign languages communicated through the dances of bees from
different continents, scientists from China, Australia and Germany
have found.
Experiments showed a subspecies of Asian honeybees could
understand the dance of European honeybees and thus locate the food
sources when the bees were raised in the same hive.
Dr. Songkun Su, of Zhejiang University's College of Animal
Sciences, who headed the study, said the research team found the
Asian honeybee, Apis cerana cerana (Acc), could quickly grasp the
distinctive ...