By the time Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch started studying bees, the science of animal behavior had been largely discredited. But he eventually received a Nobel Prize for his work, which ...

The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language Tania Munz. Univ. of Chicago, $30 (296p) ISBN 978-0-226-02086-0 ...

Von Frisch was awarded a portion of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1973. Munz gives a talk at 7 p.m. Sept. 8 at the library. Admission is free, but e-tickets from lindahall.org are ...

In the 1960s, Nobel Prize winning zoologist, Karl von Frisch, proposed that honeybees use dance (the"waggle dance") as a coded message to guide other bees to new food sources. However, some ...

Stories by Karl von Frisch. Evolution August 1, 1962. Dialects in the Language of the Bees. The dances that a honeybee does to direct its fellows to a source of nectar vary from one kind of bee to ...

Nature - Mark L. Winston reviews a study of Karl von Frisch, the ethologist who unravelled bee communication. Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com.

WHEN Karl von Frisch decoded the secret language of bees in 1946, even he couldn't quite believe what he had found. Was it really possible for a creature with … Close.

Robyn Williams: Karl von Frisch won the Nobel for medicine and physiology, studying bees. Seems unlikely, doesn't it. Peter Bernhardt in St Louis Missouri tells his story. Peter Bernhardt: I'm an ...

The bee dance (decoded by Karl von Frisch) is to communicate the location of a food source to members of the hive. The dance is performed as a figure eight; during the straight section connecting the ...

On Monday at 4.30 o'clock in the Geology Lecture Room all members of the University will have the opportunity of hearing Professor Karl von Frisch, head of the Zoological Institute of Munich ...

In the 1960s, I had reason to discuss with my friend the late Annemarie Weber, a muscle physiologist, the morality of ethologist Karl von Frisch's decision to continue his studies on honeybee ...