Von Frisch’s discoveries opened an entirely new field of study in animal behavior and communication, revealing that complex language systems exist well beyond human society. The Round Dance: ...

Seeley said that the first rigorous studies of honey bee behavior were done in the 1910s by Karl von Frisch, who identified similarities between human beings and honey bees.

In 1962, a decade before winning the Nobel Prize for research on bee communication, Karl von Frisch declared bumblebees too small-brained to think, putting their ingenious nature all down to hardwired ...

Despite the concrete landscapes, cities provide a surprising abundance of floral resources, particularly in parks, private gardens, and rooftop gardens. Honeybees communicate the location of food ...

The prestigious UNESCO Kalinga Prize has been awarded for excellence in the field of Science. Instituted by former Odisha Chief Minister Biju Patnaik in 1952, the prize has so far been awarded to 72 ...

Not everyone gives directions the way you do—in fact, the way people tell others how to get where they want to go can vary by city, town, and culture. Some of these directional systems might just ...

In the 1920s, Austrian scientist Karl von Frisch decoded the dance: it was a form of communication. He dubbed it Tanzsprache, “dance language”, and showed it was a way for bees to signal to hive mates ...

More than 20 years ago, Dr. Karl von Frisch, topflight bee authority, thought of a way to test the bee’s remarkable sense of time.

This type of biologically coded coincidence detection likely governs numerous types of social behaviors in animals, including humans. In 1938, Nobel prize-winner Karl von Frisch discovered that a ...

Medicine: Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns” German–Austrian Karl von ...

Elisabeth, who came from an Austro-Croatian family of administrators and army officers, trained as a biologist under the future Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch. To escape the bombing, she took Werner ...