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Meaning. According to tradition, "the birds and the bees" is a metaphorical story sometimes told to children in an attempt to explain the mechanics and results of sexual intercourse through reference to easily observed natural events. For instance, bees carry and deposit pollen into flowers, a visible and easy-to-explain parallel to fertilization.
I had heard that bees were used as an example to demonstrate the mechanics of reproduction (as they pollinate flowers), and birds were used as an example to demonstrate love, marriage, and family (because of things like avian courtship behavior, and the way birds care for their young). B7T 04:22, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
In this list of birds by common name, a total of 10,976 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
Rather than vocal-auditory, bees use the space-movement channel to communicate. Honeybees use dances to communicate—the round dance , the waggle dance , and the transitional dance. Depending on the species, the round dance is used to communicate that food is 20–30 m from the hive, the waggle dance that food is 40–90 m from the hive, and ...
Era. Songwriter (s) Barry Stuart. "The Birds and the Bees" was a 1964 single release by Jewel Akens that is said to have been written by the twelve-year-old son of Era Records owner Herb Newman; the songwriting credit on the Jewel Akens recording of "The Birds and the Bees" reads Barry Stuart, which is the song's standard songwriting credit. [1]
Another example is Billie Holiday, in 1941. [13] Peggy Lee with the Benny Goodman orchestra recorded a version in 1941 with these lyrics. CBS came up with less offensive lyrics, which NBC adopted, and changed the opening to the refrain: "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it." when they recognized that the line was offensive.
Animal language. Animal languages are forms of communication between animals that show similarities to human language. [1] Animals communicate through a variety of signs, such as sounds and movements. Signing among animals may be considered a form of language if the inventory of signs is large enough. The signs are relatively arbitrary, and the ...
The waggle dance - the direction the bee moves in relation to the hive indicates direction; if it moves vertically the direction to the source is directly towards the Sun. The duration of the waggle part of the dance signifies the distance. Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee.