The dance language and orientation of bees is his masterwork the culmination of more than fifty years of research it describes in non technical language what he discovered in a lifetime of study about honeybees their methods of orientation their sensory faculties and their remarkable ability to communicate with one another. The dance language and orientation of bees karl von frisch translated from the german edition berlin 1965 by leigh e chadwick belknap press harvard university press cambridge mass 1967 xiv 566 pp illus 15. The dance language and orientation of bees excerpt from karl von frisch 1967 the belknap press of harvard university press cambridge mass pp 4 5 karl von frisch was a german scientist who was interested in how honey bees communicated with one another there were many possibilities sound smell visual cues and combinations of these. Citation von frisch k 1967 the dance language and orientation of bees harvard university press abstract a summary of 50 years work on the biology and behavior of honeybees