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“Scientists believe that bee dialects are shaped by their local environments. If so, it makes sense for a colony to pass on a dialect that is well adapted to this environment,” said Nieh. The results therefore provided evidence that social learning shapes honey bee signaling as it does with early communication in many vertebrate species that also benefit from learning.

Complex Learned Social Behavior Discovered in Bee’s Waggle Dance - Neuroscience News

There are several analogies between bee's learning the dance and humans learning language, such as early exposure, quality, and local dialects.

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