Which of the following organisms perform waggle dance for others of their kin to indicate the direction and the distance to a source of their food?

Answer: C. HONEYBEES perform the famous waggle dance. The waggle dance was first decoded by Austrian ethologist Karl von Frisch (Nobel Prize 1973). A worker honeybee returning to the hive after finding a rich nectar source performs a figure-eight dance on the comb, with the angle of the straight 'waggle' run relative to vertical indicating the direction of the food relative to the sun. The duration of the waggle phase encodes distance. This is one of the most complex symbolic communication systems known outside humans. Distractors: (A) Butterflies and (B) dragonflies are largely solitary and do not communicate food location via dance. (D) Wasps have some social communication but do not perform the waggle dance. Source: NCERT Class 11 Biology Ch 4 (Animal Kingdom) / von Frisch's classic work 'The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees'.