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The tremble dance of honey bees can be caused by hive-external foraging experience

Corinna Thom

Department for Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, Würzburg University, Biozentrum, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany



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  		Fig. 1. The probability that a nectar forager performs a waggle dance, a tremble dance or no dance during each control phase and manipulation phase of the experiment. Statistics are given in the text. Data were pooled for Colonies 1 and 2.

 


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  		Fig. 2. The percentage of waggle dancers, tremble dancers and non-dancing nectar foragers that had an unloading contact before they started to dance (white bars), and that started to dance before they had an unloading contact (black bars). (A) Data for the control phase, and (B) for the manipulation phase of the experiment. Statistics are given in the test. Data were pooled for Colonies 1 and 2.

 


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  		Fig. 3. The distribution of unloading delays for waggle dancers, tremble dancers and non-dancing nectar foragers that either unloaded first (tu; A,C) or danced first (td; B,D). (A) and (B) show the data for the control phase, (C) and (D) for the manipulation phase of the experiment. Sample sizes are given in Table 1. Note that only three tremble dancers unloaded first during the control phase of the experiment. Data from Colonies 1 and 2 are pooled. Statistics are given in the text.

 




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