Older bees teach younger bees how to 'waggle dance'

+ how women can negotiate higher salaries US Edition - Today's top story: Unlocking secrets of the honeybee dance language – bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills [View in browser]( US Edition | 10 March 2023 [The Conversation] [The Conversation]( Honeybees have a complex system for communicating with each other about food sources – they waggle their abdomen in a specific, repeated pattern. Other bees in the hive watch this “waggle dance” and follow its instructions to get first dibs on the best meals. But, as biologist James Nieh from the University of California, San Diego and his team have found, this dance isn’t something bees just wake up one morning knowing how to do. Younger bees need to learn it from older bees in the hive – it’s culturally transmitted, similar to how children learn language from their parents. And, as with human language, the bees’ waggle dance varies from region to region, like different dialects. 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