A University of Arizona researcher has been studying colonies of ants and bees. She tracks each creature individually to watch their behaviors and how they contribute to the colony. She discovered that the behaviors the ants exhibited were closer to Aesop's Grasshopper, rather than industrious ants. There is a great division of labor amongst all of them. In bees, she discovered that they leave "notes" behind that other bees can see. The bumblebees are also able to communicate in a "waggle dance"-something that resembles of figure 8. The communication of a bumblebee is the closet to symbolic language from any creature-execpt for humans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/science/28prof.html?pagewanted=1&ref=science
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