Peter Dillon wrote:

>Short article from the BBC relating to Honey bee "dancing"
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4536127.stm


    I have studied the original Nature article (upon which the BBC
article was based) and will provide a considered response for BEE-L
subscribers in due time.  The claims the authors made far exceeded
the experimental results they obtained

                                                Adrian
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