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.
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.
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 TH-cam video
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!!!
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.
@@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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
@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
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.
ahhhhh ! I was wondering about if they new the time changes and sun changes or if it was just a rough estimation. Thank You, very cool :) I am more amazed that humans figured this out than I am that bees communicate in this manner. Well done primates :)
How would you test whether or not it's optical information? If that's true, why did Karl Von Frisch come up with the energy model? I think if one found that the distance of a waggle dance isn't affected by a fore or hind wind it would refute the energy model. What new research supports this optical flow model?
I have a hive in my chimney way up high, and no beekeeper wants to deal with them, so I am stuck with them....this is their third season in my tall chimney. Your film helps me understand them
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.
Mind. Blown.
Coursera's Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics course brought me here. From Universiteit Leiden. #HumanLang.
TheDLirios cool
me too
I'm 4 years late but same.
I am taking the course right now! Amazing information.
Me too! I like this course so much
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.
Could you please give us an update?
Thank you for pointing out the direction for me to follow the bees!
i unironically love bees, they actually make me so happy
Then him in the hive boys
Dancing's so cute. I also love to hear their buzzing while they dance, which you can hear here
th-cam.com/video/4NtegAOQpSs/w-d-xo.html
This video in a nutshell: "how could this bee?"
UnBEElievable
oh, it bee!
Well, you just had to BEE there
Even bees use the metric system.
I hope you're sarcastic.
No, I’m not being sarcastic. I really do think the metric system is superior.
@TomSFox As presented in the film, the bees are using energy expenditure as a measure of distance. The speaker is using the metric system.
Yes, it was a joke. Not sarcasm. Two different things.
TomSFox base 60 is factored to the circle metric does not factor in nature.
Bees are now my favorites. WOW :)
I'm here because of Coursera's Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics. Universiteit Leiden.
+María José Bianchi Me too!
+qbNaith +María José Bianchi
Me three :)
Same here! And wow! This is amazing!
mee too! haha
Same here! :)
Now that I know this... I can't help but think how ingenious and how adorable these little creatures are.
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.
Excellent!
The visual aids make it very simple to understand exactly what those little ladies are doing.
Well done.
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 TH-cam video
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!!!
That was the subject of my philosophy class this morning, thank you for the illustration !
From a beekeeper who has tried to explain this 100 times - Thank You!
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.
seems like more instinct than intelligence
@@Kalificus which could be argued to be nature’s intelligence
@@flynncremin6347 and nature's intelligence could be argued to be randomness in mutations leading to evolution
@@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.
@@galacticloveteam8813 The behavior is not random, I agree. But how thr behavior developed was random
how can someone watch this and still believe it's all work of an explosion, rather than the intentional design on an intelligent being?
this is so amazing :) I wish I wasn't so terrified of bees 'cause they are awesome
Pretty neat. Way more interesting then how the instructor introduced it in class. Thank you for the video! :)
Thanks for the video! We used this in our homeschooling lesson for the day!
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!
Same :) It's really cool
Very interesting. They are very precise in their designing of the cone. Perfect.
I honestly don't know why I like this so much..
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.
@@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.
Well one can totally choreograph these dance moves by carefully placing food...
wow! and I have trouble finding the fridge sometimes. Amazin
I hope you find it one day
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!
coursera @LeidenMOOCs bought me here
Pascal Uriel ELINGUI lol, me too
Pascal Uriel ELINGUI Me too!
Pascal Uriel ELINGUI me 3. Very cool video!
+Pascal Uriel ELINGUI Same here -- very interesting!
+Pascal Uriel ELINGUI me too!
Can I get bees to do my trig test for me?
bananian Yeah, that's what I did! The typical going rate is about 200 calories worth of necter per question.
I hope we don’t go off in a *tangent!*
🥁
Truly amazing! Came here thanks to the Coursera Miracles of Human Language course :)
They're soo CUTE!!! I love them!!! Thank You God for creating all your beautiful intelligent little animals like bees!!!!
Fascinating.
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.
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.
Austria is producing great biologists.
After Mandel,karl von frish is another mind blowing
Thank you so much for this video!! I use it to teach in my General and Applied Linguistics class!!!
Amazingly brilliant insects.
Animals are so much more intelligent than we want to admit. They deserve our protection, not the exploitation and suffering we continue to cause them.
Wow, bees have an understand of expected utility of the food :p
that's better understanding of economics than a lot of humans
this was amazing thank you
0:12 bee trips and falls.
"Ugh.. Damnit" gets back up and leaves.
"Be Like the Bees" brought me here...
EXCELLENT!
It's finally good to have this mystery solved.
@enginerdtrav glad you enjoyed it!
5:02 "the bees internal clock" or sequential information transfer? ?
when you linguistics teacher makes you watch a video about dancing bees... and you actually really enjoy it
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!
Thank you, that was awesome! Very clearly explained!
bees scare me but ill be damned if they arn't interesting.
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!
Thank you Coursera machine learning clustering course :D
Imagine the first dancing Bee trying to get everyone to understand what he was doing.
this should be titled why bees are the smartest insects
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.
Even bees know more mathematics than I
This is fascinating
This is marvellous.
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.
Me too, thanks for the oportunity to watch such an interesting study!!
They are such amazing creatures
this is very interesting! well done
your style is awesome
Fascinating. Thank you.
Damn, that must BEE fascinating to watch.
@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
I could sit and listen to this oer and over again, well done clever clogs!! ;)
This is amazing! Can't wait to take part in research at GT!
I’ve been looking for videos of bees doing the shimmy dance with music dubbed, so far I’ve been unsuccessful :(
The bees had to learn to do this because they had no GPS.
bees have tons more forms of communication
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.
Great for both science and film production classroom use.
Bee twerking is so sophisticated
wow! everyday i wake up and find fascinating things about the world we live in
(i am also here from coursera hah)
Where can I find that cool blue feeder ??
Super informatief en mooi in beeld gebracht
incredible stuff
ahhhhh ! I was wondering about if they new the time changes and sun changes or if it was just a rough estimation. Thank You, very cool :) I am more amazed that humans figured this out than I am that bees communicate in this manner. Well done primates :)
Most people would contest that assertion, little blue horse.
Just look at the 'likes' vs. 'dislikes'.
Science is nifty.
This is incredible!
How would you test whether or not it's optical information? If that's true, why did Karl Von Frisch come up with the energy model? I think if one found that the distance of a waggle dance isn't affected by a fore or hind wind it would refute the energy model. What new research supports this optical flow model?
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I think the video is very well done and informative.
Nothing short of amazing.
great work
still quite useful video :)
Clear and interesting!
Absolutely spot on...the yanks will try and tell us bees use the imperial system...
I love bees.... and I have never ever been beating by one. Maybe because I love them... they just might feel this. ...who knows.... they are awesome.
Much more informative video. Thanks to the creators... 😊
Absolutely incredible video, very well done! This behavior is so clever it makes me kind of giddy.
It was very helpful.... Thx a lot
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Fantastic. Great doco. Definitely taught me some info. I didn't know. Thanks for sharing.
Mind Blown
I have a hive in my chimney way up high, and no beekeeper wants to deal with them, so I am stuck with them....this is their third season in my tall chimney. Your film helps me understand them
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.
Would be really useful, especially with pesticide residue exposure testing for colony behavior
That's fucking bananas, dude!
awesome video
Incredible
The painted bees are so cute.
Wow bees are amazing. I knew they were smart but wow.
I AM NOT HERE FROM Coursera !
Fun fact: some bees are terrible navigators and other bees stop “listening” to them
OMG, bees have reputations!
That was very informative. I love learning about bees.
Great upload! Many thanks for posting this informative video!
very interesting! WOW!! They are naturally mathematical