The Social Learning in the Dance of Bees

Like children, who have the innate ability to speak, bees carry in their genes the dance with which they inform the hive that they have found food. However, just as humans must learn to communicate correctly, young bees need the older ones to teach them how to dance well. A group of entomologists has discovered that, without the example of their elders, honey bees are unable to convey the distance to new flowers, suggesting that these insects socially learn a complex language.