The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies Hardcover - 1996
by Thomas D. Seeley
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This book is about how a colony of honey bees works as a unified whole.
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This book is about the inner workings of one of nature's most complex animal societies: the honey bee colony. It describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author. In his investigations, Thomas Seeley has sought the answer to the question of how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources. The results of his research - including studies of the shaking signal, tremble dance, and waggle dance, and other, more subtle means by which information is exchanged among bees - offer the clearest, most detailed picture available of how a highly integrated animal society works. By showing how several thousand bees function together as an integrated whole to collect the nectar, pollen, and water that sustain the life of the hive, Seeley sheds light on one of the central puzzles of biology: how units at one level of organization can work together to form a higher-level entity.
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- Title The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies
- Author Thomas D. Seeley
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 318
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Massachusetts
- Date February 15, 1996
- ISBN 9780674953765 / 0674953762
- Weight 1.92 lbs (0.87 kg)
- Dimensions 9.45 x 8.26 x 1.27 in (24.00 x 20.98 x 3.23 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Honeybee - Food, Honeybee - Behavior
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-3645
- Dewey Decimal Code 595.799
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