Followers of honey bee waggle dancers change their behavior when dancers are sleep-restricted or perform imprecise dances

Sleep loss is known to adversely affect language use in humans (Shein, 1957; Morris, Williams, & Lubin, 1960; Horne, 1988; Wimmer, Hoffmann, Bonato, & Moffitt, 1992; Harrison & Horne, 1997; Harrison & Horne, 1998), but evidence for effects on language comprehension is sparse (Schein, 1957; Pilcher et al., 2007; Pilcher, Jennings, Phillips, & McCubbin, 2016) and we are aware of no studies explicitly examining the effects of sleep loss on communication - both signaling and receiving - in any other species. This includes studies of signals affected by sleep loss and the behavioural consequences exhibited by receivers of these signals. Possible exceptions relate to courtship (Seugnet et al., 2011) and aggression (Kayser, Mainw ...