The dancing bees : Karl von Frisch and the discovery of the honeybee language
Munz, Tania, 1973-2016
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Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II that bees communicate the location of food sources to each other through complex circle and waggle dances. 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. She 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.
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Author:
Munz, Tania, 1973-, author
Imprint:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Collation:
296 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780226020860 (hbk)
Dewey class:
595.799
LC class:
QL31.F7
Local class:
595.799
Language:
English
BRN:
1587431
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