Why do bees dance?
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Why do bees dance?
You're a honeybee who just found a patch of wildflowers bursting with nectar two football fields away from the hive. Hundreds of your sisters are back home, waiting to hear where the good stuff is. But you can't talk. You can't point. You can't draw a map. So what do you do? You dance.
Inside the dark hive, you land on the honeycomb and start moving in a tight figure-eight pattern. This isn't random wiggling — it's a waggle dance, and it's a miniature GPS coordinate system. The straight middle part of the eight, where you shake your body side to side, is the important bit. That waggle run is a tiny arrow pointing to the flowers.
