Ruth Rosin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Mike Stoops is convinced that honeybees have a DL, simply because he wishes them to have such a DL. 

Mike previously wrote: "Think however the info is being conveyed, ...... they do get it and that they act constructively on it.


Guess I wasn't clear in my posting.  I'm not completely convinced that honeybees have a DL, but I'm not completely convinced that they don't.  Think that there has to be some more controlled studies.  There is more than one way that info can be transferred from one individual to another, at least in human beings.  Think that is probably true in other species as well.  As our ability to track bees with less and less obtrusiveness grows, the better we will be able to assess our studies of the bees' different language mechanisms.  Facial movements, body language, tone of voice, words spoken, (i.e. odor, bee movement, wing vibration, etc.) all speak (possibly).  I'm not a bee so I can't say definitively about their languages but I'm not going to discount concepts with the current evidence presented.

Mike in LA

		
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