Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s12304-022-09519-2
Heidi Campana Piva
Stingless bees are among the most dominant pollinators in the south tropics. As such, the rational beekeeping of stingless bee species, called meliponiculture, is an ancient and relevant activity, related to sustainable agricultural development, and which connects traditional knowledge to innovation and novelty. Given the relevance of this topic, this paper discusses the possibilities of a semiotically mediated communication between humans and Meliponini (stingless bees). Zoosemiotics, as the studies of animal views of the world, is the ideal modelling system for the investigation of the possibilities of mutual understanding between these two species. Starting from the premise that, for there to be inter-specific communication, there must be a shared code, and that this depends on the biological makeup and sensory apparatus of both organisms involved in the communication process, this research suggests that a possible way to communicate with stingless bees is with the use of olfactory (chemical) signals, since this channel seems to be common to both humans and bees. Considering that for human-animal relations one party must be able to recognize the other (iconic learning), it is revealed that chemical signals do allow bees to recognize individual humans, even going so far as profiling this person as 'not a threat'. Finally, bees are seen to act cooperatively while the beekeeper is taking action to protect and maintain the nest, something that can be interpreted as an opening of semiotic relations, where the bees are deeming the beekeeper as part of their social group.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12304-022-09519-2.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1007/s12304-022-09516-5
Devon Schiller
{"title":"And the Flesh in Between: Towards a Health Semiotics","authors":"Devon Schiller","doi":"10.1007/s12304-022-09516-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-022-09516-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"16 1","pages":"175 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42593913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1007/s12304-022-09514-7
K. Mochalov
{"title":"Time Transformation in the Sign System of the Conditioned Reflex","authors":"K. Mochalov","doi":"10.1007/s12304-022-09514-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-022-09514-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"16 1","pages":"85 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47284974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.1007/s12304-022-09507-6
Cary Campbell
{"title":"Embracing the Learning Turn: The ecological context of learning","authors":"Cary Campbell","doi":"10.1007/s12304-022-09507-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-022-09507-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"15 1","pages":"469 - 481"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45847334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1007/s12304-022-09511-w
A. Sharov
{"title":"Consciousness and Learning from the Biosemiotic Perspective","authors":"A. Sharov","doi":"10.1007/s12304-022-09511-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-022-09511-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"15 1","pages":"483 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43754689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-09DOI: 10.1007/s12304-022-09513-8
K. Kull, Donald Favareau
{"title":"There is Umwelt Before Consciousness, and Learning Transverses Both","authors":"K. Kull, Donald Favareau","doi":"10.1007/s12304-022-09513-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-022-09513-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49230,"journal":{"name":"Biosemiotics","volume":"15 1","pages":"491 - 495"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46137635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}