The Waggle Dance of the Honeybee

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  • Опубліковано 1 лют 2011
  • 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/.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 370

  • @TomSFox
    @TomSFox 7 років тому +577

    Even bees use the metric system.

    • @fawazalhoqail4846
      @fawazalhoqail4846 7 років тому +4

      I hope you're sarcastic.

    • @TomSFox
      @TomSFox 7 років тому +41

      No, I’m not being sarcastic. I really do think the metric system is superior.

    • @ragmar6018
      @ragmar6018 7 років тому +11

      @TomSFox As presented in the film, the bees are using energy expenditure as a measure of distance. The speaker is using the metric system.

    • @TomSFox
      @TomSFox 7 років тому +47

      Yes, it was a joke. Not sarcasm. Two different things.

    • @timtwiggy1233
      @timtwiggy1233 5 років тому +2

      TomSFox base 60 is factored to the circle metric does not factor in nature.

  • @Urubosrt
    @Urubosrt 7 років тому +222

    This video in a nutshell: "how could this bee?"

  • @andrewflynn6883
    @andrewflynn6883 3 роки тому +114

    i unironically love bees, they actually make me so happy

    • @LilGhostlyX_X
      @LilGhostlyX_X 3 роки тому +1

      Then him in the hive boys

    • @greg1030
      @greg1030 2 роки тому

      Dancing's so cute. I also love to hear their buzzing while they dance, which you can hear here
      ua-cam.com/video/4NtegAOQpSs/v-deo.html

  • @ccgatech
    @ccgatech  13 років тому +182

    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.

  • @TheDLirios
    @TheDLirios 8 років тому +344

    Mind. Blown.
    Coursera's Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics course brought me here. From Universiteit Leiden. #HumanLang.

  • @mariajosebianchi5
    @mariajosebianchi5 8 років тому +165

    Bees are now my favorites. WOW :)
    I'm here because of Coursera's Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics. Universiteit Leiden.

    • @qbNaith
      @qbNaith 8 років тому +1

      +María José Bianchi Me too!

    • @amitraohuman
      @amitraohuman 8 років тому

      +qbNaith +María José Bianchi
      Me three :)

    • @milwizz
      @milwizz 8 років тому

      Same here! And wow! This is amazing!

    • @daps1812
      @daps1812 7 років тому +1

      mee too! haha

    • @xinqi1440
      @xinqi1440 7 років тому +1

      Same here! :)

  • @Durrpadil
    @Durrpadil 7 років тому +11

    Now that I know this... I can't help but think how ingenious and how adorable these little creatures are.

  • @hunterXhuruka
    @hunterXhuruka 11 років тому +18

    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.

  • @clems6belio
    @clems6belio 11 років тому +8

    That was the subject of my philosophy class this morning, thank you for the illustration !

  • @hagensteele4447
    @hagensteele4447 9 років тому +4

    Excellent!
    The visual aids make it very simple to understand exactly what those little ladies are doing.
    Well done.

  • @maksymkinasch4398
    @maksymkinasch4398 2 роки тому +8

    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 UA-cam video

  • @andresacosta7645
    @andresacosta7645 9 років тому +19

    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!!!

  • @charlatanbaby
    @charlatanbaby 10 років тому +52

    wow! and I have trouble finding the fridge sometimes. Amazin

    • @faro7100
      @faro7100 3 роки тому +3

      I hope you find it one day

  • @bananian
    @bananian 9 років тому +60

    Can I get bees to do my trig test for me?

    • @Crick1952
      @Crick1952 9 років тому +24

      bananian Yeah, that's what I did! The typical going rate is about 200 calories worth of necter per question.

    • @emmarose4234
      @emmarose4234 3 роки тому +1

      I hope we don’t go off in a *tangent!*
      🥁

  • @enginerdtrav
    @enginerdtrav 13 років тому +3

    From a beekeeper who has tried to explain this 100 times - Thank You!

  • @ylonmc2
    @ylonmc2 5 років тому +33

    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.

    • @Kalificus
      @Kalificus 2 роки тому +3

      seems like more instinct than intelligence

    • @flynncremin6347
      @flynncremin6347 2 роки тому +1

      @@Kalificus which could be argued to be nature’s intelligence

    • @Dish.Washer
      @Dish.Washer 2 роки тому +2

      @@flynncremin6347 and nature's intelligence could be argued to be randomness in mutations leading to evolution

    • @galacticloveteam8813
      @galacticloveteam8813 11 місяців тому

      @@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.

    • @Dish.Washer
      @Dish.Washer 11 місяців тому

      @@galacticloveteam8813 The behavior is not random, I agree. But how thr behavior developed was random

  • @elinguiuriel
    @elinguiuriel 9 років тому +61

    coursera @LeidenMOOCs bought me here

    • @Crick1952
      @Crick1952 9 років тому +1

      Pascal Uriel ELINGUI lol, me too

    • @carson6097
      @carson6097 9 років тому

      Pascal Uriel ELINGUI Me too!

    • @BackpackingDiplomacy
      @BackpackingDiplomacy 9 років тому

      Pascal Uriel ELINGUI me 3. Very cool video!

    • @BrianLokker
      @BrianLokker 8 років тому

      +Pascal Uriel ELINGUI Same here -- very interesting!

    • @loofah5672
      @loofah5672 8 років тому

      +Pascal Uriel ELINGUI me too!

  • @mrdeadman007
    @mrdeadman007 9 років тому +7

    Well one can totally choreograph these dance moves by carefully placing food...

  • @Unsabulous
    @Unsabulous 11 років тому +11

    this is so amazing :) I wish I wasn't so terrified of bees 'cause they are awesome

  • @yeahyou7536
    @yeahyou7536 8 років тому +4

    Fascinating.

  • @ccgatech
    @ccgatech  12 років тому +1

    @enginerdtrav glad you enjoyed it!

  • @melanienguyen4188
    @melanienguyen4188 8 років тому +2

    Pretty neat. Way more interesting then how the instructor introduced it in class. Thank you for the video! :)

  • @sherrybrittowinters5348
    @sherrybrittowinters5348 3 роки тому +1

    Very interesting. They are very precise in their designing of the cone. Perfect.

  • @jennifernolen9138
    @jennifernolen9138 10 років тому +2

    Thanks for the video! We used this in our homeschooling lesson for the day!

  • @moe1593
    @moe1593 4 роки тому +12

    this should be titled why bees are the smartest insects

    • @AbsentWithoutLeaving
      @AbsentWithoutLeaving 3 роки тому

      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.

  • @kennethnielsen935
    @kennethnielsen935 9 років тому +14

    I honestly don't know why I like this so much..

    • @jasoncarswell7458
      @jasoncarswell7458 5 років тому

      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.

    • @makemarker
      @makemarker 4 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @philaman1972
    @philaman1972 6 років тому +1

    Amazingly brilliant insects.

  • @KJKP
    @KJKP 7 років тому +4

    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.

  • @notoriousxnena
    @notoriousxnena 8 років тому +5

    this was amazing thank you

  • @lillykainz
    @lillykainz 8 років тому

    Me too, thanks for the oportunity to watch such an interesting study!!

  • @Personmr
    @Personmr 10 років тому +20

    bees scare me but ill be damned if they arn't interesting.

    • @AbsentWithoutLeaving
      @AbsentWithoutLeaving 3 роки тому +2

      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!

  • @McLarenF1God
    @McLarenF1God 13 років тому

    EXCELLENT!
    It's finally good to have this mystery solved.

  • @Arnis1mail
    @Arnis1mail 8 років тому

    I'm just randomly watching videos on youtube and this is amazing.

  • @merveilleuxetmagique
    @merveilleuxetmagique 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you, that was awesome! Very clearly explained!

  • @lasercass
    @lasercass 7 років тому +1

    Truly amazing! Came here thanks to the Coursera Miracles of Human Language course :)

  • @oriana_fortunato
    @oriana_fortunato 2 роки тому

    when you linguistics teacher makes you watch a video about dancing bees... and you actually really enjoy it

  • @mbgal7758
    @mbgal7758 3 роки тому

    They are such amazing creatures

  • @kylahamlin2515
    @kylahamlin2515 2 роки тому +1

    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!

  • @SymothyD
    @SymothyD 10 років тому +2

    0:12 bee trips and falls.
    "Ugh.. Damnit" gets back up and leaves.

  • @infinitels5304
    @infinitels5304 3 роки тому +4

    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!

  • @mikesearles
    @mikesearles 3 роки тому

    Fascinating. Thank you.

  • @peterhauser9205
    @peterhauser9205 7 років тому

    This is incredible!

  • @santiagoarcesueldo3687
    @santiagoarcesueldo3687 11 років тому +1

    Thank you so much for this video!! I use it to teach in my General and Applied Linguistics class!!!

  • @Mjiujtsu
    @Mjiujtsu 8 років тому +27

    Wow, bees have an understand of expected utility of the food :p
    that's better understanding of economics than a lot of humans

  • @brucesbees
    @brucesbees 2 роки тому

    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!

  • @LuisLascanoValarezo
    @LuisLascanoValarezo 3 роки тому

    This is amazing! Can't wait to take part in research at GT!

  • @ShyamSharma-gs8tt
    @ShyamSharma-gs8tt 7 років тому +1

    Mind Blown

  • @edergreen5140
    @edergreen5140 11 років тому

    I could sit and listen to this oer and over again, well done clever clogs!! ;)

  • @SisyphusTwo
    @SisyphusTwo 3 роки тому

    Fascinating...

  • @justice1523
    @justice1523 10 років тому

    Nothing short of amazing.

  • @1103MusikBerlin
    @1103MusikBerlin 6 років тому

    your style is awesome

  • @Zoologicalavenue
    @Zoologicalavenue 5 років тому

    Austria is producing great biologists.
    After Mandel,karl von frish is another mind blowing

  • @pokecardskev3267
    @pokecardskev3267 11 років тому

    That was very informative. I love learning about bees.

  • @MsRuthT
    @MsRuthT 9 років тому

    Fascinating. :-) Love bees.

  • @Outcrankin
    @Outcrankin 2 роки тому

    Incredible

  • @duncanjames914
    @duncanjames914 7 років тому

    Incredible!

  • @Cooriander
    @Cooriander 13 років тому

    Clear and interesting!

  • @trbalch
    @trbalch 13 років тому

    @rkaiii1 , the error concerns a 5 second section of the 8 minute video, which we address with a caption. The expense of the video production workflow and narration probably precludes a correction of just that portion. We hope that you will find the rest of the video informative.
    Thanks,
    Tucker Balch, associate professor of Interactive Computing

  • @bugraaydn5113
    @bugraaydn5113 Рік тому

    This is fascinating

  • @cheeze6850
    @cheeze6850 3 роки тому +1

    wow! everyday i wake up and find fascinating things about the world we live in
    (i am also here from coursera hah)

  • @harmlessbystander621
    @harmlessbystander621 4 роки тому +5

    I’ve been looking for videos of bees doing the shimmy dance with music dubbed, so far I’ve been unsuccessful :(

  • @cekan14
    @cekan14 3 роки тому

    This is marvellous.

  • @laurakf1519
    @laurakf1519 2 роки тому +1

    how can someone watch this and still believe it's all work of an explosion, rather than the intentional design on an intelligent being?

  • @chunqiu17
    @chunqiu17 2 роки тому

    I love it!

  • @Dan5482
    @Dan5482 11 років тому

    Wonderful! Thank you!

  • @exogendesign4582
    @exogendesign4582 3 роки тому

    Damn, that must BEE fascinating to watch.

  • @Phaota
    @Phaota 12 років тому

    Fantastic. Great doco. Definitely taught me some info. I didn't know. Thanks for sharing.

  • @finding_mahmoud
    @finding_mahmoud 7 років тому +2

    Thank you Coursera machine learning clustering course :D

  • @stansmith4054
    @stansmith4054 5 років тому

    Truely amazing animals!

  • @sintar02
    @sintar02 11 років тому

    Absolutely incredible video, very well done! This behavior is so clever it makes me kind of giddy.

  • @nehagoyal8508
    @nehagoyal8508 6 років тому

    great work

  • @katleach2382
    @katleach2382 3 роки тому

    incredible stuff

  • @NirangaDeSilva
    @NirangaDeSilva 7 років тому

    Simply WOW..!

  • @teaophysique
    @teaophysique 10 років тому +1

    fascinating!!!!

  • @everyusernametaken11
    @everyusernametaken11 Рік тому

    There seems to be a couple things off in this video.
    I don't understand the point made about bees measuring distance in terms of "expended energy"- this is an odd way to phrase it. It would seem they're simply dancing the length of time (or some proxy representation) it took to fly to the food source with given wind (and other) resistances. There would be no other useful way of measuring "true distance" for a bee other than time, assuming the bee is flying at its normal (I guess top) speed. The bee most likely doesn't have the communication abilities to convey "it's 1km away, but it took me 2 minutes."
    Further, this video mentions that the "central waggle section" of the bee's dance (5:22) corresponds to distance traveled to the food source, yet Von Frisch showed that bees use the entire spin cycle as sort of a constant internal clock, so it's the number of rotations which corresponds time taken/distance to food, not an elongated central waggle section.

  • @inezvandenbroek4519
    @inezvandenbroek4519 5 років тому

    Super informatief en mooi in beeld gebracht

  • @Laura_ASMR_
    @Laura_ASMR_ Рік тому

    this is very interesting! well done

  • @rkaiii1
    @rkaiii1 13 років тому

    Thank you for your prompt reply.
    I think the video is very well done and informative.

  • @packet40
    @packet40 12 років тому

    Great upload! Many thanks for posting this informative video!

  • @zoll2211
    @zoll2211 13 років тому

    Great for both science and film production classroom use.

  • @SrEngr
    @SrEngr 6 років тому +3

    It would be cool to get an AI to back out the "waggle dance" from video of the bees. Could an AI manage a colony from the inside with a "virtual" (robot or image) of a bee. If it could, then we could get AI beekeepers to track feeding, and correlate it with mortality. It might also be able to protect the hive by interfering with communications about sweet, but deadly, food sources.

    • @bolengerin
      @bolengerin 2 роки тому +1

      Would be really useful, especially with pesticide residue exposure testing for colony behavior

  • @bipulkharel4957
    @bipulkharel4957 7 років тому

    Much more informative video. Thanks to the creators... 😊

  • @ayushshah3357
    @ayushshah3357 7 років тому

    It was very helpful.... Thx a lot

  • @galacticloveteam8813
    @galacticloveteam8813 11 місяців тому

    I would like to see more studies done on the frequency vibration rates of bees in accordance with the Earth’s Schumann Resonance and the Sun’s resonance and also the electro magnetic aspect of bees in accordance with finding food and even attracting pollen.

  • @ajayjajodia84
    @ajayjajodia84 11 років тому

    terrific ..amazed

  • @Diamondraw4Real
    @Diamondraw4Real 6 років тому

    this is an amazing video!

  • @pigsareit
    @pigsareit 7 років тому

    Amazing video, good job!

  • @ThelumleysfilmMovies
    @ThelumleysfilmMovies 5 років тому +1

    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

  • @TroyMira
    @TroyMira 3 роки тому

    Begs the question about the function of brain in memory storage since this seems entirely somatic - basically a re-enactment of the flight. Thanks for the share.

  • @elishh8173
    @elishh8173 Рік тому

    They're soo CUTE!!! I love them!!! Thank You God for creating all your beautiful intelligent little animals like bees!!!!

  • @1LadyEMM
    @1LadyEMM 11 років тому

    SOOOOO COOL!

  • @ShahJahan572
    @ShahJahan572 10 років тому +9

    "Be Like the Bees" brought me here...

  • @ThomasStone
    @ThomasStone 11 років тому

    what a great video!

  • @RSTAR2009
    @RSTAR2009 10 років тому +7

    Unbeelievable!

  • @adriancalma3508
    @adriancalma3508 3 роки тому

    Bee twerking is so sophisticated

  • @johnkot3114
    @johnkot3114 2 роки тому

    Imagine the first dancing Bee trying to get everyone to understand what he was doing.

  • @docvix80
    @docvix80 3 роки тому

    Amazing

  • @DewBee1
    @DewBee1 2 дні тому

    Where can I find that cool blue feeder ??

  • @amadeuswoodhull6724
    @amadeuswoodhull6724 10 місяців тому

    that's so amazing

  • @glitched2797
    @glitched2797 6 років тому

    This is so interesting :)