A Method for Studying Social Signal Learning of the Waggle Dance in Honey Bees

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作者
Dong, Shihao [1 ]
Lin, Tao [1 ]
Nieh, James C. [2 ]
Tan, Ken [1 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, CAS Key Lab Trop Forest Ecol, Kunming, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Ecol Behav & Evolut, Sch Biol Sci, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
来源
BIO-PROTOCOL | 2023年 / 13卷 / 16期
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Honey bee; Waggle dance; Referential communication; Social learning; Experience; COMMUNICATION;
D O I
10.21769/BioProtoc.4789
中图分类号
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Honey bees use a complex form of spatial referential communication. Their waggle dance communicates to nestmates the direction, distance, and quality of a resource by encoding celestial cues, retinal optic flow, and relative food value into motion and sound within the nest. This protocol was developed to investigate the potential for social learning of this waggle dance. Using this protocol, we showed that correct waggle dancing requires social learning. Bees (Apis mellifera) that did not follow any dances before they first danced produced significantly more disordered dances, with larger waggle angle divergence errors, and encoded distance incorrectly. The former deficits improved with experience, but distance encoding was set for life. The first dances of bees that could follow other dancers hadnone of these impairments. Social learning, therefore, shapes honey bee signaling, as it does communication in human infants, birds, and multiple other vertebrate species. However, much remains to be learned about insects' social learning, and this protocol will help to address knowledge gaps in the understanding of sophisticated social signal learning, particularly in understanding the molecular bases for such learning.
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