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No Oh and here's your shmoop du jour brought to

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you by the honeybee dance floor The clientele stinks But

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at least you know where the food is Well here's

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a passage about an experiment performed on their communication of

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honeybees Better read it it's buzz worthy Art In our

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test question honeybees used the waggle dance too Right here

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the potential answers That sounds quite a bit like the

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same question scientists had In fact it says right there

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in the passage scientists conducted an experiment to determine how

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bees used the waggle dance So what did they find

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out our bees using the waggle dance to option d

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impress other bees Well sure some species of animal dance

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a bit to impress others think backto uncle running at

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the new year's eve party But according to scientists that's

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not the point of the waggle dance Sorry rani option

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c as a type of mating ritual Again no ronnie

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come on option b to have some fun dancing might

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be fun but that's not what the scientists found so

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it's not be ronnie Do you need a ride home

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All right well that just leaves option a communicating where

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and how much food is present Bingo it's option a

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