Honeybee linguistics—a comparative analysis of the waggle dance among species of Apis
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Madeleine Beekman*, James C. Makinson, Margaret J. Couvillon, Kaitlyn Preece and Timothy M. Schaerf 1 Behaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2 Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK 3 Animal Behaviour Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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