scholarly journals Neuroethology of the Waggle Dance: How Followers Interact with the Waggle Dancer and Detect Spatial Information

Insects ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Ai ◽  
Ryuichi Okada ◽  
Midori Sakura ◽  
Thomas Wachtler ◽  
Hidetoshi Ikeno
Keyword(s):  
Animal Ecology ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Neural Processing ◽  
Dance Language ◽  
Current State ◽  
Biological Studies ◽  
Foraging Experience ◽  
Karl Von Frisch

Since the honeybee possesses eusociality, advanced learning, memory ability, and information sharing through the use of various pheromones and sophisticated symbol communication (i.e., the “waggle dance”), this remarkable social animal has been one of the model symbolic animals for biological studies, animal ecology, ethology, and neuroethology. Karl von Frisch discovered the meanings of the waggle dance and called the communication a “dance language.” Subsequent to this discovery, it has been extensively studied how effectively recruits translate the code in the dance to reach the advertised destination and how the waggle dance information conflicts with the information based on their own foraging experience. The dance followers, mostly foragers, detect and interact with the waggle dancer, and are finally recruited to the food source. In this review, we summarize the current state of knowledge on the neural processing underlying this fascinating behavior.

scholarly journals THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING OF UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
R. Sossa
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
Topographic Maps ◽  
Topographic Mapping ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Ussr Council ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Military

The basic principles and current state of topographic mapping of the territory of Ukraine are considered. Prior to the proclamation of Ukraine's independence, its territory was covered by topographic maps in the scale of 1:10 000 to 1: 1 000 000, created by the Main Department of Geodesy and Cartography under the USSR Council of Ministers and the Military Topographic Service of the USSR Armed Forces. The interaction of these departments in topographic mapping is highlighted. The topographic study of Ukrainian territory as of 1991 is analyzed in detail. Today the content of most topographic maps of scales from 1:10 000 to 1: 200 000 is characterized by "aging" of information and does not correspond to the current state of the area. The unsatisfactory state of topographic study of the territory led to the unclaimed topographic maps with much outdated information for consumers, and for the military it very difficult to perform combat tasks. The needs of current topographic information users require a significant improvement in topographic maps content. Since the mid-1990s, the creation of national geospatial data infrastructures has become crucial for providing spatial information to the state and society. The basic principles and general requirements for the creation and updating of state topographic maps are now defined by the "Procedure for national topographic and thematic mapping" (2013). The adoption of the Law of Ukraine "On the National Infrastructure of Geospatial Data", giving a powerful impetus to topographic mapping, poses a responsible task of organizational and regulatory and technical support of this process. The issue of obtaining topographic maps from the topographic database requires scientific and technical elaboration, development of appropriate normative and technical documents (guides, principles, instructions, symbols, etc.).

scholarly journals The current state of the creation and modernization of national geodetic and cartographic resources in Poland

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Doskocz
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Control Networks ◽  
Spatial Reference ◽  
Current State ◽  
Map Data ◽  
Official Data

AbstractAll official data are currently integrated and harmonized in a spatial reference system. This paper outlines a national geodetic and cartographic resources in Poland. The national geodetic and cartographic resources are an important part of the spatial information infrastructure in the European Community. They also provide reference data for other resources of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), including: main and detailed geodetic control networks, base maps, land and buildings registries, geodetic registries of utilities and topographic maps. This paper presents methods of producing digital map data and technical standards for field surveys, and in addition paper also presents some aspects of building Global and Regional SDI.

scholarly journals Infrastructure for spatial information INSPIRE – branch profile metadata with range of cultural heritage protection

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 083-098
Author(s):  
Bogusław Szmygin ◽  
Ewa Banak
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Current State ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
System Information ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Polish Law

One of the topics of spatial data that will form the basis for the creation of Polish Infrastructure for Spatial Information, data on the state of the resource and the protection of cultural heritage. This article is designed to test the broader assessment of progress on the creation of Polish database of spatial information in the field of cultural heritage protection. Presents the current state, as well as insights on the possible inclusion of built file system information about the Polish monuments and cultural heritage. Studies were used as a source of available literature, data from the official websites of the institutions responsible for the transposition of the INSPIRE Directive into Polish law, and above all the materials Surveyor General of the Land and the National Heritage Board of Poland.

scholarly journals Follower Position Does Not Affect Waggle Dance Information Transfer

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parry M. Kietzman ◽  
P. Kirk Visscher
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bee ◽  
Honey Bees ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Waggle Dance

It is known that the honey bee waggle dance communicates the distance and direction of some item of interest, most commonly a food source, to nestmates. Previous work suggests that, in order to successfully acquire the information contained in a dance, other honey bees must follow the dancer from behind. We revisit this topic using updated methodology, including a greater distance from the hive to the feeder, which produced longer, more easily-read dances. Our results are not congruent with those of earlier work, and we did not conclude that honey bees must follow a dancer from behind in order to obtain the dance information. Rather, it is more likely that a follower can successfully acquire a dance’s information regardless of where she may be located about a dancer.

scholarly journals Oscillations make a self-scaled model for honeybees’ visual odometer reliable regardless of flight trajectory

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (182) ◽  
pp. 20210567
Author(s):  
Lucia Bergantin ◽  
Nesrine Harbaoui ◽  
Thibaut Raharijaona ◽  
Franck Ruffier
Keyword(s):  
Optic Flow ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Large Range ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Flight Trajectory ◽  
Scaled Model ◽  
Statistical Dispersion ◽  
Visual Odometer ◽  
Robotic Applications

Honeybees foraging and recruiting nest-mates by performing the waggle dance need to be able to gauge the flight distance to the food source regardless of the wind and terrain conditions. Previous authors have hypothesized that the foragers’ visual odometer mathematically integrates the angular velocity of the ground image sweeping backward across their ventral viewfield, known as translational optic flow. The question arises as to how mathematical integration of optic flow (usually expressed in radians/s) can reliably encode distances, regardless of the height and speed of flight. The vertical self-oscillatory movements observed in honeybees trigger expansions and contractions of the optic flow vector field, yielding an additional visual cue called optic flow divergence. We have developed a self-scaled model for the visual odometer in which the translational optic flow is scaled by the visually estimated current clearance from the ground. In simulation, this model, which we have called SOFIa, was found to be reliable in a large range of flight trajectories, terrains and wind conditions. It reduced the statistical dispersion of the estimated flight distances approximately 10-fold in comparison with the mathematically integrated raw optic flow model. The SOFIa model can be directly implemented in robotic applications based on minimalistic visual equipment.

Honeybee waggle dance: recruitment success depends on the dance floor

1996 ◽  
Vol 199 (6) ◽  
pp. 1375-1381 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Tautz
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Dance Floor ◽  
Recruitment Success

The waggle dance of the honeybee Apis mellifera, used to recruit nestmates to a food source, takes place on the surface of the combs in the dark hive. The mechanism of information transfer between dancer and follower bees is not entirely understood. The results presented here reveal a novel factor that must be brought into any consideration of this mechanism, namely that the nature of the floor on which the bees dance has a considerable influence on the recruitment of nestmates to a food source. Dancers on combs with open empty cells recruit three times as many nestmates to a food source as dancers on capped brood cells.

scholarly journals Social learning of floral odours inside the honeybee hive

2005 ◽  
Vol 272 (1575) ◽  
pp. 1923-1928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter M Farina ◽  
Christoph Grüter ◽  
Paula C Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Associative Learning ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Proboscis Extension Response ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Information Centre ◽  
Proboscis Extension

A honeybee hive serves as an information centre in which communication among bees allows the colony to exploit the most profitable resources in a continuously changing environment. The best-studied communication behaviour in this context is the waggle dance performed by returning foragers, which encodes information about the distance and direction to the food source. It has been suggested that another information cue, floral scents transferred within the hive, is also important for recruitment to food sources, as bee recruits are more strongly attracted to odours previously brought back by foragers in both honeybees and bumble-bees. These observations suggested that honeybees learn the odour from successful foragers before leaving the hive. However, this has never been shown directly and the mechanisms and properties of the learning process remain obscure. We tested the learning and memory of recruited bees in the laboratory using the proboscis extension response (PER) paradigm, and show that recruits indeed learn the nectar odours brought back by foragers by associative learning and retrieve this memory in the PER paradigm. The associative nature of this learning reveals that information was gained during mouth-to-mouth contacts among bees (trophallaxis). Results further suggest that the information is transferred to long-term memory. Associative learning of food odours in a social context may help recruits to find a particular food source faster.

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