Which of the following organisms perform waggle dance for others of their kin to indicate the direction and the distance to a source of their food?
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Answer: C. Honeybee foragers do a 'waggle dance' in the hive. The angle of the dance shows the direction of food relative to the sun, and the length of the waggle shows the distance.
Watch for: Wasps look like bees, but the waggle dance is specific to honeybees.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because butterflies do not communicate food sources by dancing.
- B. Wrong because dragonflies are solitary hunters and do not dance for kin.
- D. Wrong because wasps do not use the waggle dance.
Source to check: Karl von Frisch, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973 (nobelprize.org), work on the honeybee waggle dance
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