Srinivasa and colleagues (2000) found that bees use visual cues to estimate how far they have traveled so that information regarding distance to the food source can be communicated to the other bees once they return to the hive. The researchers determined this by training bees to fly into tunnels in order to reach a feeder and then manipulated the
A) color of the tunnels.
B) diameter of the tunnels.
C) length of the tunnels.
D) pattern of stripes within the tunnels.

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Srinivasa and colleagues discovered that bees use the pattern of stripes within the tunnels as visual cues to estimate the distance they have traveled. By manipulating these patterns, they were able to determine how bees communicate information about the distance to food sources to their hive mates.

Srinivasa and Colleagues (2000) Found That Bees Use Visual Cues