Martin Lindauer — Communication Among Social Bees

Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1971. Cloth. A smart third printing of this behavioral study on social bees. Third printing. Scarce work. Harvard Books in Biology, Number 2. Illustrated with eighty-one in-text figures. A detailed study on communication between social bees, with chapters on the elementary forms of communication, dancing, the development of "languages", sensory aspects, and problems concerning orientation. With an appendix exploring the significance of the dance, magnetic effects on dancing bees, and learning and memory in Honeybees. Written by Martin Lindauer, a German behavioral scientist who studied communication systems in various species of social bees including stingless bees and honey bees. In the original full blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear and light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .