The Waggle Dance of the Honeybee
How can honeybees communicate the locations of new food sources? Austrian biologist, Karl Von Frisch, devised an experiment to find out! By pairing the direction of the sun with the flow of gravity, honeybees are able to explain the distant locations of food by dancing. "The Waggle Dance of the Honeybee" details the design of Von Frisch's famous experiment and explains the precise grammar of the honeybees dance language with high quality visualizations.
This video is a design documentary, developed by scientists at Georgia Tech's College of Computing in order to better understand and share with others, the complex behaviors that can arise in social insects. Their goal at the Multi-Agent Robotics and Systems (MARS) Laboratory is to harness new computer vision techniques to accelerate biologists' research in animal behavior. This behavioral research is then used, in turn, to design better systems of autonomous robots.
For additional detail on the MARS lab at Georgia Tech, please visit www.bio-tracking.org/.
Even bees use the metric system.
I hope you're sarcastic.
No, I’m not being sarcastic. I really do think the metric system is superior.
@TomSFox As presented in the film, the bees are using energy expenditure as a measure of distance. The speaker is using the metric system.
Yes, it was a joke. Not sarcasm. Two different things.
TomSFox base 60 is factored to the circle metric does not factor in nature.
Mind. Blown. Coursera's Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics course brought me here. From Universiteit Leiden. #HumanLang.
TheDLirios cool
me too
I'm 4 years late but same.
I am taking the course right now! Amazing information.
Me too! I like this course so much
This video in a nutshell: "how could this bee?"
UnBEElievable
oh, it bee!
Well, you just had to BEE there
i unironically love bees, they actually make me so happy
Then him in the hive boys
Dancing's so cute. I also love to hear their buzzing while they dance, which you can hear here kzhead.info/sun/Z7Ktlct5hoOmhqs/bejne.html
Note: New research suggests that honeybees actually measure distances by the amount of optical information encountered during a flight. The energy model presented in this video derives from earlier work by Karl Von Frisch, but now seems to be refuted by the optical flow model.
Could you please give us an update?
Thank you for pointing out the direction for me to follow the bees!
Bees are now my favorites. WOW :) I'm here because of Coursera's Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics. Universiteit Leiden.
+María José Bianchi Me too!
+qbNaith +María José Bianchi Me three :)
Same here! And wow! This is amazing!
mee too! haha
Same here! :)
Now that I know this... I can't help but think how ingenious and how adorable these little creatures are.
so cute and chubby... I remember studying about the "8" circles bees do in biology class, but I didn't know these actions contain such accurate information! Very clear and informative clip. Thank you.
WOW! WOW! WOW! We you teach it not only to biologists, but to theologians and philosophers and people from other field of science! Amazing! Thank you! P.S. I never comment this way below an KZhead video
Excellent! The visual aids make it very simple to understand exactly what those little ladies are doing. Well done.
That was the subject of my philosophy class this morning, thank you for the illustration !
This shows what many men know intuitively for centuries: that all of nature and all animals are intelligent. The trouble is that it takes a lot of intelligence to spot intelligence different from ours. Von Frisch was undoubtedly a remarkable mind to point out that bees have language just like we do. Awesome little documentary as well.
seems like more instinct than intelligence
@@Kalificus which could be argued to be nature’s intelligence
@@flynncremin6347 and nature's intelligence could be argued to be randomness in mutations leading to evolution
@@Dish.Washer There is nothing “random” about how bees navigate mathematical perfection to find food in accordance with the sun as their pivotal navigational tether point.
@@galacticloveteam8813 The behavior is not random, I agree. But how thr behavior developed was random
the obssession of the human being to measure its sorrounding by gather meticuluosly information to detect inherent patterns is evident in the outcome of this research...Amazing!!!
From a beekeeper who has tried to explain this 100 times - Thank You!
wow! and I have trouble finding the fridge sometimes. Amazin
I hope you find it one day
Can I get bees to do my trig test for me?
bananian Yeah, that's what I did! The typical going rate is about 200 calories worth of necter per question.
I hope we don’t go off in a *tangent!* 🥁
Amazingly brilliant insects.
Well one can totally choreograph these dance moves by carefully placing food...
this is so amazing :) I wish I wasn't so terrified of bees 'cause they are awesome
when you linguistics teacher makes you watch a video about dancing bees... and you actually really enjoy it
I honestly don't know why I like this so much..
Because evolution is amazing and can "teach" a tiny insect both geometry and sign language? Imagine a human trying to explain 1) he found something useful, 2) how useful it is, 3) how far away it is, and 4) what direction, all without speaking or using his hands. Now shrink his brain by 100x and take away every advantage mammals have in social communication.
@@jasoncarswell7458 a blind man finds sight pretty fascinating, he doesn't really understand what is sight as we live it but to him in this sense, we are like superbeings. Point, we are all amazing in many ways.
coursera @LeidenMOOCs bought me here
Pascal Uriel ELINGUI lol, me too
Pascal Uriel ELINGUI Me too!
Pascal Uriel ELINGUI me 3. Very cool video!
+Pascal Uriel ELINGUI Same here -- very interesting!
+Pascal Uriel ELINGUI me too!
this should be titled why bees are the smartest insects
Somewhere out here there's a video of a guy who has pet spider (huge variety, can't remember which one) who high fives him.
The design of the dance when overlapped with the duration reminds me of the height and chroma of the pitch helix. Just thought that was neat. Such a great video!
@enginerdtrav glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the video! We used this in our homeschooling lesson for the day!
Very interesting. They are very precise in their designing of the cone. Perfect.
Pretty neat. Way more interesting then how the instructor introduced it in class. Thank you for the video! :)
Fascinating.
Bee twerking is so sophisticated
0:12 bee trips and falls. "Ugh.. Damnit" gets back up and leaves.
Extremely cool! I saw this video for the first tike years ago and just watched it again. Very good information. So glad you created this video!
This was so cool. I have to do a project on Karl Von Frisch's studies of honey bees and this was really educational and helpful. Keep up the good work!
Same :) It's really cool
this was amazing thank you
Fascinating. Thank you.
Wow, bees have an understand of expected utility of the food :p that's better understanding of economics than a lot of humans
EXCELLENT! It's finally good to have this mystery solved.
That's fucking bananas, dude!
Thank you, that was awesome! Very clearly explained!
This is fascinating
Austria is producing great biologists. After Mandel,karl von frish is another mind blowing
Me too, thanks for the oportunity to watch such an interesting study!!
your style is awesome
bees scare me but ill be damned if they arn't interesting.
Honeybees aren't troublesome for me...it's wasps that give me the heebie-jeebies. Having been stung by members of a colony that nested in an outdoor stairway of an apartment complex I was staying at, I gained a healthy respect for their sense of vengeance. I swear those suckers knew exactly what time I got home from work and laid in wait for me!
They're soo CUTE!!! I love them!!! Thank You God for creating all your beautiful intelligent little animals like bees!!!!
Truly amazing! Came here thanks to the Coursera Miracles of Human Language course :)
This is marvellous.
I'm just randomly watching videos on youtube and this is amazing.
I could sit and listen to this oer and over again, well done clever clogs!! ;)
Thank you so much for this video!! I use it to teach in my General and Applied Linguistics class!!!
This is incredible!
great work
incredible stuff
They are such amazing creatures
how can someone watch this and still believe it's all work of an explosion, rather than the intentional design on an intelligent being?
wow! everyday i wake up and find fascinating things about the world we live in (i am also here from coursera hah)
This is amazing! Can't wait to take part in research at GT!
I love bees.... and I have never ever been beating by one. Maybe because I love them... they just might feel this. ...who knows.... they are awesome.
Clear and interesting!
this is very interesting! well done
Fantastic. Great doco. Definitely taught me some info. I didn't know. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely incredible video, very well done! This behavior is so clever it makes me kind of giddy.
That was very informative. I love learning about bees.
Incredible!
I’ve been looking for videos of bees doing the shimmy dance with music dubbed, so far I’ve been unsuccessful :(
Fascinating. :-) Love bees.
I love it!
Thank you for your prompt reply. I think the video is very well done and informative.
Mind Blown
Animals are so much more intelligent than we want to admit. They deserve our protection, not the exploitation and suffering we continue to cause them.
Wonderful! Thank you!
Damn, that must BEE fascinating to watch.
Great upload! Many thanks for posting this informative video!
Much more informative video. Thanks to the creators... 😊
awesome video
Thank you Coursera machine learning clustering course :D
Amazing video, good job!
Truely amazing animals!
It was very helpful.... Thx a lot
what a great video!
this is an amazing video!
Nothing short of amazing.
"Be Like the Bees" brought me here...
Fascinating...
Great for both science and film production classroom use.
An interesting corollary behavior always unaddressed is this: how do the subsequent bees learn from those who preceded them? Do they count? Is there a sense of delay between beginning and end of the dance? Some of the watching bees inside the hive seem to orient themselves parallel to the axis of the waggle walk path.
terrific ..amazed
Extraordinary the honey bee can dance
Super informatief en mooi in beeld gebracht
This is so interesting :)
I love this video I even told my friend that they need to see it I'm from Jamaica and my channel it's all about Jamaican bees this video teach me a lot
Incredible
Amazing
fascinating!!!!
xoss documentary!
Cool bees!
The mind boggles!
fantastic
Simply WOW..!
Absolutely spot on...the yanks will try and tell us bees use the imperial system...