LEADER 04578cam a2200517 i 4500001 264404 005 20240621200800.0 008 180426s2016 ilua b 001 0beng 010 2015036905 019 948568068 020 9780226020860 |q(cloth ; |qalkaline paper) 020 022602086X |q(cloth ; |qalkaline paper) 020 |z9780226021058 |q(e-book) 024 8 40026038297 035 (OCoLC)ocn920017434 035 264404 037 |bUniv of Chicago Pr, Attn: John Kessler 11030 S Langley Ave, Chicago, IL, USA, 60628, (773)5681550 |nSAN 202-5280 042 pcc 043 e-gx---n-us--- 049 LHMA 040 ICU/DLC |beng |erda |cCGU |dDLC |dSTF |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCF |dABG |dYAM |dVP@ |dJTH |dCHVBK |dYUS |dL2U |dCPCBT |dOCLCA |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dOCLCA |dZCU |dSFR |dOCLCQ |dCSJ |dOCLCO |dIOK |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dLHM 050 00 QL31.F7 |bM959 2016 100 1 Munz, Tania, |d1973- |eauthor. 245 14 The dancing bees : |bKarl von Frisch and the discovery of the honeybee language / |cTania Munz. 246 30 Karl von Frisch and the discovery of the honeybee language 264 1 Chicago ;London : |bThe University of Chicago Press, |c2016. 300 278 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index. 505 0 Sensational findings -- Bee vignette I: Victorian bees -- Coming of age in Vienna -- The bees that could -- Bee vignette II: sensing the senses -- Calm before the storm -- In the service of the Reich -- Bee vignette III: deep inside the hive -- State of grace -- Picking up the pieces in postwar Germany -- Coming to America -- Bee vignette IV: seeing bees -- Attack on the dance language. 520 We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II, bees communicate the location of food sources to each other through complex circle and waggle dances. For centuries, beekeepers had observed these curious movements in hives, and others had speculated about the possibility of a bee language used to manage the work of the hive. But it took von Frisch to determine that the bees dances communicated precise information about the distance and direction of food sources. As Tania Munz shows in this exploration of von Frisch's life and research, this important discovery came amid the tense circumstances of the Third Reich. "The Dancing Bees" draws on previously unexplored archival sources in order to reveal von Frisch's full story, including how the Nazi government in 1940 determined that he was one-quarter Jewish, revoked his teaching privileges, and sought to prevent him from working altogether until circumstances intervened. In the 1940s, bee populations throughout Europe were facing the devastating effects of a plague (just as they are today), and because the bees were essential to the pollination of crops, von Frisch's research was deemed critical to maintaining the food supply of a nation at war. The bees, as von Frisch put it years later, saved his life. Munz not only explores von Frisch s complicated career in the Third Reich, she looks closely at the legacy of his work and the later debates about the significance of the bee language and the science of animal communication. This first in-depth biography of von Frisch paints a complex and nuanced portrait of a scientist at work under Nazi rule. "The Dancing Bees" will be welcomed by anyone seeking to better understand not only this chapter of the history of science but also the peculiar waggles of our garden visitors. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Frisch, Karl von, |d1886-1982. 650 0 Bees |xBehavior. 600 17 Frisch, Karl von, |d1886-1982. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00014259 650 7 Bees |xBehavior. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00829777 600 17 Frisch, Karl von |d1886-1982. |2gnd |0(DE-588)118693670 650 7 Bienen |gFamilie. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4006523-6 650 7 Tiersprache. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4140571-7 650 7 Tiersoziologie. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4185503-6 650 7 42.01 history of biology. |2nbc 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 856 42 |zAdditional Information at Google Books |uhttp://books.google.com/books?vid=isbn9780226020860 852 0 |bstacks |hQL31.F7 |iM959 2016