Editing Animal language (section)

===Insects===
* [[Waggle dance|Bee dancing]]: Used to communicate the direction and distance of food source in many species of [[bee]]s. In 2023, [[James C. Nieh]], Associate Dean and Professor of Biology with the [[University of California, San Diego]], performed an experiment to determine if the dances of bees were innate skills or if they were developed through observation of older bees within their hive.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Dong |first1=Shihao |last2=Lin |first2=Tao |last3=Nieh |first3=James C. |last4=Tan |first4=Ken |date=2023-03-10 |title=Social signal learning of the waggle dance in honey bees |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade1702 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=379 |issue=6636 |pages=1015–1018 |doi=10.1126/science.ade1702 |pmid=36893231 |bibcode=2023Sci...379.1015D |s2cid=257430009 |issn=0036-8075}}</ref> The research group determined that the dance bees performed was to some degree innate, but the consistency and accuracy of the dance was a skill passed down by older bees. Although the experimental hive that contained only workers of the same age developed better accuracy when conveying angle and direction as they got older, their ability to communicate distance never reached the level of the control beehives.<ref name=":1" />