Example sentences for: waggle

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

  • If food is found 45° to the right of the sun's direction, the waggle run will be oriented 45° to the right of vertical on the comb (Figure 1).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • He found that the angle of the waggle run from the vertical is equal to the angle between the sun's azimuth and the indicated food source outside the hive.


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