Other Species Can Learn Foreign Language
There are nine species of honeybees found worldwide and they do different type of dances as their “language” to tell each other the location of a tasty flower or nesting site.
The study leader Shaowu Zhang of The Australian National University mentioned that the duration of the waggle dances differs from species to species.
The research team mixed two species of honeybees, Asian and European together in a hive, and trained one species to fly to a feeder. The untrained species were able to identify the dances of by the trained cousins and interpret where the feeder was.
This study proved that these honeybees can learn to translate each others’ languages very effectively.
