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Scarlett Howard, Lecturer, Monash University

Is the honeybee’s iconic waggle dance learned or innate? New research provides the answer

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As we progress through life, we learn many essential behaviours from more experienced people around us. For example, through observing adults, we go from being babbling babies, to using single words, to speaking in full sentences.

This is an example of social learning. And it turns out it isn’t unique to our species.

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