Dancing to different tunes: heterospecific deciphering of the honeybee waggle dance

被引：12

作者：

Tan, K. ^{[2
,3
]}

Yang, M. X. ^{[3
,4
]}

Radloff, S. E. ^{[1
]}

Hepburn, H. R. ^{[3
,4
]}

Zhang, Z. Y. ^{[3
]}

Luo, L. J. ^{[3
]}

Li, H. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Rhodes Univ, Dept Stat, ZA-6140 Grahamstown, South Africa

[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Kunming 650223, Yunnan Province, Peoples R China

[3] Yunnan Agr Univ, Eastern Bee Res Inst, Kunming 650223, Yunnan Province, Peoples R China

[4] Rhodes Univ, Dept Zool & Entomol, ZA-6140 Grahamstown, South Africa

来源：

NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN | 2008年 / 95卷 / 12期

关键词：

Apis mellifera; Apis cerana; Waggle dance; Interspecific communication;

D O I：

10.1007/s00114-008-0437-1

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Although the structure of the dance language is very similar among species of honeybees, communication of the distance component of the message varies both intraspecifically and interspecifically. However, it is not known whether different honeybee species would attend interspecific waggle dances and, if so, whether they can decipher such dances. Using mixed-species colonies of Apis cerana and Apis mellifera, we show that, despite internal differences in the structure of the waggle dances of foragers, both species attend, and act on the information encoded in each other's waggle dances but with limited accuracy. These observations indicate that direction and distance communication pre-date speciation in honeybees.

引用

页码：1165 / 1168

页数：4