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Scientists spy on booty-shaking bees to help conservation

US biologists have now decoded over 1,500 honey bee dances to providing conservation groups trying to boost the imperiled species' population with new insights into their foraging preferences. [AFP]

We've long known honey bees shake their behinds to communicate the location of high-value flower patches to one another, a form of signaling that scientists refer to as "waggle dances."

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