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The findings also shed new light on the famous waggle dance, the behavior honey bees use to communicate the location of food sources to other members of the colony.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026

Every day, new people came, some people left, but the constant was Syd, his presence, his waggle, his ability to give unexpected joy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025

He added: "He had a super swing - a no-nonsense swing. One waggle and away it went."

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025

Insects are known to be capable of social learning in the wild: the best-known example is the so-called waggle dance used by honeybees to communicate the location and quality of flowers.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 7, 2023

He would get the fire going and the plane would see the smoke and circles, circle once, then again, and waggle its wings.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

But he says the new research reveals more about the structure of a species’ communication system, much as scientists deciphered how the waggles of honey bees tell other bees where flowers are located.

From Science Magazine ● May 7, 2024

The researchers observed that bees alter the position of their antennae, which are touched repeatedly by the dancer as it waggles by, based on the angle of their body relative to the dancer.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

“His tongue waggles, he talks fast. Smooth talker is how I’m going to explain it.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

It's a fiercely hot afternoon in Milton Keynes and I'm chasing a small orange flag as it waggles just above a line of low garden walls.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2022

He holds the tan-sandy shoe up and waggles it.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

Millions of people watched the awards shows where Williams waggled his hips at Tom Jones, or challenged Oasis’ Liam Gallagher to a fist fight — moments that have been absorbed into pop culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024

When I met Caleb at his place, I held up my hands and waggled my fingers.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2019

“Respect the axe. Don’t swing it everywhere. Don’t just throw it around all willy-nilly,” Meehan-Berg said, as I waggled the axe about.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018

A flock of young men in gingham hailed from The American Conservative; hip-looking Manhattanites slouched in their seats; Orthodox priests, wearing dark robes and heavy crosses, waggled their beards in groups.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 24, 2017

She raised one hand and waggled her fingers at the audience.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

The imagery in “Minions & Monsters” can be ingenious, like the galumphing tentacles on an oversize squid or the close-up shot that goes inside a director’s megaphone to see his tongue waggling at the screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Anyway, a discussion about the weather sparked Mr. Biden’s memory of an old movie, unspooling in his waggling mind.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

Slow-motion footage of waggling goose butts set to a bouncy, whimsical orchestral soundtrack works.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2020

When Weird Al appeared, waggling his arms zanily, long hair flapping in the hot wind, the crowd greeted him with a surge of joy.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2020

“Get your trays and get to work,” Mr. Klosner says, his big fuzzy mustache waggling at us.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée