README.md

WaggleDance

Waggle Dance Analysis scripts used in Sreelakshmi Suresh's MS thesis

######## This script has been adapted for a new dataset by Akul Gulrajani and Sreelakshmi Suresh ([email protected]) from edits made by Douglas Sponsler and Reed Johnson. ######## Unused portions of the original script have been commented out but not deleted. Additions are followed by the tag # Sponsler:

Electronic Supplementary Material 4 - R script to simulate dances from known waggle

dance durations and headings.

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Article title: Incorporating variability in honey bee waggle dance decoding improves

the mapping of communicated resource locations

Journal: Journal of Comparative Physiology A

Authors: Roger Schurch, Margaret J. Couvillon, Dominic D. R. Burns, Kiah

Tasman, David Waxman and Francis L. W. Ratnieks

Corresponding author: Roger Schurch, Evolution, Behaviour and

Environment, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton,

BN1 9QG, United Kingdom, [email protected]

script files that go with this script:

ESM_3.jag

data files that go with this script:

ESM_5.csv

the file will output a comma separated value file and an ASC raster file

you must create a "data" folder within the folder from which you are running the scripts

or adapt the paths for the instructions below