Friday math movie – Dancing Honeybee Using Vector Calculus to Communicate
4 Jan 2008 · Posted in Math movies, Mathematics
This week’s movie shows how honeybees communicate the distance and direction of a food source to their nestmates.
Actually, this involves “vectors” more than “calculus”, but it’s kind of cool how it works.
There’s an issue with gender in this movie. Forager bees are females, not males.
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It’s a shame they don’t explain better about how the distance to the flowers is communicated.
But it was an interesting movie.
That’s remarkable!