Article: China Exclusive: Honeybees able to learn different "dialects", scientists

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 ...

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