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What is Communication? Thank-you Ms. Frizzle


Communication is the exchange of information from one organism to another through a medium. However let's discuss those mediums. Many mediums of communication are shared thorougout the animal world. One medium that I find somewhat engrossing is that of dance.

The Western Honey Bee, as well as all known species and race of honey bees, performs a dance when they return to the hive from foraging called the waggle dance; a.ka. the round dance. The bee dances on the comb in a circular pattern, rhythmically occasionally crossing the circle in a zig-zag or waggle pattern. Karl Von Frisch correlated the runs and turns of the dance to the distance and direction of the food source from the hive. The orientation of the dance correlates to the relative position of the sun, and the length of the waggle portion of the run is correlated to the distance from the hive. It is also important to note that among the different species they're different dances.

I wasn't the only one that found this engrossing, in fact when Von Frisch performed his series of experiments to validate his theory, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Like Bees humans use dance as a form of expression and communication, and like bees they're are different styles of dance that originate from the different races and generations of people. I don''t know if bees have modified their dance techniques, but humans have modified many different dances to make them their own, usually through generational acclimation.

The studies of Zoosemiotics and Anthroposemiotics while different primarily in frequency, have many common understandings, and that understanding is really what communication is all about.

Hasta lasagna, I got my EyEs on yA!!