Robin wrote:
"This seems tantamount to saying that bees can
'write' but not 'read', when a glance at the map would save so much time."

As I understand Julian's article, he said that the dance is a vestigal
trait which lost it's origial use which was only useful to the dancer but
has evolved a secondary use which is useful to recruits.

Idle speculation, but interesting.

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