Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@futurebird" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>futurebird</span></a></span> Bees can read each other by touch: the waggle dance happens in pitch darkness inside the hive, with other bees reading out the dancer's moves with their antennae:</p><p>"Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance"<br>Anna Hadjitofi and Barbara Webb, 2024<br><a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00220-3?uuid=uuid%3A829297f7-992a-43b3-b614-be0e1dcc1701" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cell.com/current-biology/fullt</span><span class="invisible">ext/S0960-9822(24)00220-3?uuid=uuid%3A829297f7-992a-43b3-b614-be0e1dcc1701</span></a></p><p>Surely ants can too.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/honeybees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>honeybees</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/WaggleDance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaggleDance</span></a></p>