The Spatial Information Content of the Honey Bee Waggle Dance

In 1954, Haldane and Spurway published a paper in which they discussed the information content of the honey bee waggle dance with regard to the ideas of Norbert Wiener, who had recently developed a formal theory of information. We return to this concept by reanalyzing the information content in both...

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Main Authors: Roger eSchürch, Francis L. W. Ratnieks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2015.00022/full