Question

The honey bees exhibit a type of dance to communicate the location of food. What is this known as?
A) Waggle dance
B) Tap dance
C) Round dance and waggle dance
D) Break dance

Answer 1

Hint: Different organisms show different types of behavioral response in order to communicate within their community. We as a human, talk to each other, there are organisms that produce different kinds of sounds to communicate. Like this, bees perform certain kinds of dance to communicate.

Complete answer:
Karl Von Frish discovered communication in bees and shared the Nobel prize in medicine (1973) with N.Tinbergen and K.Lorenz for this discovery.
The following type of dances can be seen in honey bees:
Round Dance :- This dance indicates that the food source is about less than 75 m from a hive. The direction of the food source can be identified with the help of the smell of flowers which is present on the body of a scout honey bee.
Tail wagging Dance :- With the help of this dance bees give the information of that food source at a very far distance (more than 75 m). The direction and distance of the food source are indicated according to the position of the sun.
When the honey bee is flying in a straight line it wags its tail and wings to produce the sound. Distance of a food source can be identified with the help of speed of dance, speed of wagging tail and speed of sound. – If the motion is on the upper side of a straight line with a wagging tail then the food source will be in the same direction of sun. – If the motion is on the lower side of a straight line then the food will be in the opposite direction of the sun.

Thus, the correct option is (c) round dance and tail wagging dance.

Note: Round dance only tells about the distance of the food.
Tail wagging dance tells about both direction and distance of the food.