Practice question · True or false
The honeybee waggle dance shows displacement, since it refers to a place the dancer is not at.
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- Displacement is reference to what is remote in time or space.
- The dance describes a trip already completed to a source elsewhere.
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True
Why
True, and it is genuinely striking. Displacement was long assumed to be uniquely human, and an insect has it. What the dance lacks is duality and productivity, a reminder that the features are independent and that possessing an impressive one does not imply the others.
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