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sources that the forager had previously encountered. If the forager had previously encountered a food source of higher energetic value, and less cost, it will rate the current food source as less profitable than if it had previously encountered a food source of less energetic value. Thus, the forager bee integrates the costs and benefits associated with each potential food source and communicates their subjective profitability through their round dance performance. However, the forager bee only communicates the food source if it passes a certain concentration threshold for dancing, by passing this threshold it is determined that there are enough benefits associated with the food source to justify expending the energy required for performing the round dance.
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bee, as well as through the air currents that accompany the dance sound. Such that, the duration and frequency of the sound produced, along with the magnitude of the pressure gradient produced provide the follower bees with information regarding the direction to the food source. Acoustic signals are also used to communicate distance. The duration of the acoustic signal transmitted is proportional to the distance to the food source. In that, the train of sound pulses produced by the forager bee, known as the dance sound, increases relative to the distance to the food source.
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of being highly selective about which dance to respond to are low. It is suggested that honey bees benefit more from responding to a wide array of food sources rather than all congregating at the same, slightly richer food source. Also, since all food resources have to pass the concentration threshold for dancing in order to be communicated via the round dance, any food resource that is communicated through the round dance must have a relatively high profitability.
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direction to the food source. Support for this theory rests in the observation that honey bees can still recognize the sun's position when it is obscured by a cloud or a mountain, for example. Honey bees also recognize the daily movements of the sun and can use the sun as a compass by calculating the hour of the day.
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in the antenna of the follower bees to which the forager is communicating. The follower bees extract information about the direction of the food source from the acoustic field that the forager produces. Direction to the food source is communicated through the sound information emitted by the forager
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originally suggested a relationship between what he termed the "liveliness" of the round dance and the value of the food source. Since then, the liveliness of the round dance has been dissected into quantifiable parts. Honey bees communicate information regarding the profitability of a food source
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does. On the vertical surface of the comb, the forager expresses the angle between the position of the sun and the path to the food source through an angular deflection from perfect vertical. Honey bees use both the position of the sun and the polarization patterns of a blue sky to communicate the
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when food sources are more than 50 meters (160 ft) away. Recent research shows that bees have only one dance that always encodes distance and direction to the food source, but that precision and expression of this information depends on the distance to the target; therefore, the use of "round
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exists at 50 meters (160 ft) away from the hive. The scent attached to the forager bee's body communicates the type of food source in question to the follower bees. However, the scent of the food source alone is not sufficient information to guide the follower bees to said food source.
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dance" is outdated. Elements of the round dance also provide information regarding the forager's subjective evaluation of the food source's profitability.
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are also employed in the round dance. The following section will focus on the role of each mechanism as a function of the round dance, specifically.
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