Frontiers | The spatial information content of the honey bee waggle dance
1 2Clinical Trials Unit, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 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 vector components (direction, distance) of the waggle dance using recent empirical data from a study that investigated the accuracy of ...
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