Tom Seeley, a professor of biology at Cornell University, compares the decision-making processes of honey bee colonies to human societies. When a colony swarms, scout bees fly to potential new hive sites and report their findings to the rest of the colony by performing what researchers call the "waggle dance." Their movements telegraph information about the location of sites they recommend to the rest of the group. Only after a number of scouts have visited the sites and performed their own dances in favor of the best site does the group decide to move to that site.