Note that the passage explicitly says that Aristotle didn't make this connection. He merely noted that honeybees "dance" for their nestmates but did not hypothesize that the "dance" was the means of communication.
This would explain how bees can communicate in darkness but scientists (mistakenly) thought bees lacked hearing so this hypothesis was not taken seriously.
Example ·Bees ignore some communications, suggesting symbolic communication
Experiment revealed that bees ignored dances that communicated information about presence of food in unlikely sources suggesting that communication in bees is symbolic and has a level of interpretation.
Passage Style
12.
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Question Type
Describe relationship
This Describe Relationship question asks us to identify the relationship between the two passages. The answer choices for this question require an understanding of both passages, so we will approach this question after reading both passages.
This is not descriptively accurate. If the phenomenon in question is animal communication, then passage B gives several examples (bees and monkeys) and passage A only gives one example (honeybees)
This describes the relationship between the two passages. Passage A is concerned in its entirety with the phenomenon of honeybee dances; passage B discusses honeybee dances in support of the more general thesis that some species can communicate symbolically.
Honeybee dances aren’t the primary concern of passage B; passage B is more broadly interested in animal communication. (E) is descriptively inaccurate.
Difficulty
84% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%137
147
75%157
Analysis
Describe relationship
Comparative
Science
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
157
b
3%
157
c
84%
165
d
3%
156
e
9%
158
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