20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts!
6. THE HONEY BEE USES THE MOST COMPLEX SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF ANY ANIMAL ON EARTH, OUTSIDE OF THE PRIMATE FAMILY.
Honey bees pack a million neurons into a brain that measures a mere cubic millimeter, and they use every one of them. Worker bees must perform different roles throughout their lives. Foragers must find flowers, determine their value as a food source, navigate back home, and share detailed information about their finds with other foragers. Karl von Frisch received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973 for cracking the language code of honey bees—the waggle dance.
