Monday, January 21, 2008

Bee Dance (Waggle Dance)

Bee Dance (Waggle Dance)
Bees algorithm seems to be inspired from Bee Dance (Waggle Dance) .

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 their hive mates information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar or pollen, or both, and to water sources. Thus the waggle dance is a mechanism whereby successful foragers can recruit other bees in their colony to good locations for collecting various resources. It used to be thought that bees have two distinct recruitment dances—round dances and waggle dances—the former for indicating nearby targets and the latter for indicating distant target, but it is now known that a round dance is simply a waggle dance with a very short waggle run

By means of the waggle dance a bee communicates to its hivemates in which direction they must fly to reach a food source. The following video shows Bee Dance (Waggle Dance)



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