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03927aam a2200409 i 4500 001 29D6576A6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150925t20162016ilua b 001 0beng c 010 $a 2015036905 020 $a 022602086X 020 $a 9780226020860 035 $a (OCoLC)920017434 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c STF $d CGU $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ABG $d YAM $d VP@ $d JTH $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a QL31 F7 M959 2016 100 1 $a Munz, Tania, $d 1973- $e author. 245 14 $a The dancing bees : $b Karl von Frisch and the discovery of the honeybee language / $c Tania Munz. 246 30 $a Karl von Frisch and the discovery of the honeybee language 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 278 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-267) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : 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 -- Conclusion : 180/60. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Frisch, Karl von, $d 1886-1982. 650 0 $a Bees $x Behavior. 650 0 $a Animal communication. 650 0 $a Zoologists $z Germany $v Biography. 650 0 $a Zoologists $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a Germany $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724073233.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20170804010451.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826052005.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=29D6576A6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search