Example sentences for: waggle

How can you use “waggle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Correspondingly, foragers should have indicated a longer distance, by stretching their waggle run duration.

  • To do this, the forager performs a repetitive sequence of movements, the so-called waggle dance, which is one of the most intriguing examples of complex animal behaviour.

  • For example, if a food source is found in the direction of the sun, the dancer will waggle ‘straight up’ the vertical comb.

  • The distance to the target, a flower patch with abundant nectar or pollen, is encoded in the duration of the waggle run: the longer the bee waggles, the larger the distance of the food from the hive.

  • This clearly shows that bee perception of distance cannot solely be based on energy expenditure, since a longer flight that cost more energy was danced as a shorter ‘distance’ in the waggle run.


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