Tim Vaughan understands my article. As he wrote, I am proposing
that "the dance is a vestigal trait which lost its original use
which was only useful to the dancer but has evolved a secondary
use which is useful to recruits."

What I am suggesting is that its use now is to attract other
bees to sample odours from good foraging sites.  There is no
communication of locality via a "language".

Tim Vaughan wrote that my article was "Idle speculation, but
interesting". The important point I want to get across is that
there are other explanations for the dance besides a) linguistic
communication OR b) no function now or ever.


Julian O'Dea
Canberra, Australia

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