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The recordings were made over 4 months and for each month the tail wagging dance varied greatly due to the change in food abundance throughout the season, which also influences the average foraging distance. For each decoded dance the researchers determined the number of dance followers 10 seconds after the dance began and then also determined the number of tail wagging dances these followers followed. The 10 seconds give the bees time to identify the dance and actually approach the dancer. Another observation in the recording was made to see how many other dances were taking place at the same time. Followers of tail wagging dancers don't just stay close to the dancer. They are identified as bees facing head-on a few body lengths away (antennal length) from the dancer. They then follow the dancer's movement and stop following a dance when she walks away to continue with other errands she has. A dancer was considered to stop dancing if they stopped dancing for more than 5 seconds, to perform other tasks. The results of the experiment show that tail wagging dances for the food source are influenced by the distance from the source. As the distance increases, the bees do fewer tail-wagging dances. The Robot Honeybee In Berlin, Germany, a RoboBee was invented to understand the cognitive processes of bees by attracting followers and leading them to food sources. Dr. Raul Rojas, director of the RoboBee Project at the Free University of Berlin, paid close attention to the dance and noticed that the bee not only shook its body back and forth, but also moved its wings, producing sounds. Consequently he incorporated these main factors necessary for the dance to achieve an accurate presentation of the...... middle of the paper ...... after his discovery, the way in which the follower bees decode the information contained in the paper. the dance. The researchers observed many signals that the followers often perform when in contact with the dancing bee, as mechanical signals such as the antenna and head-to-body contacts are detected. They also found that the body temperature of dancers is significantly higher than that of non-dancing foragers because the flight muscles used during flight are still “warm” from their activity (Landgraf 2013). However, it is not yet known what stimuli follower bees use. It is known, however, that the spatial position in the dance feature that helps followers find and make them stay with the dancers, stimulates their sensory volume, which can probably tell them the direction in which the "tail wagging dance" is probably performed"..