Training Bees to React to Vibration

The experiments would take like some took like six hours at a time depending on how keen the bee was to learn. The bees were sort of just going into this horrible little torture chamber that they had to walk through that would like vibrate as they went through. And we were training them basically when it vibrated that meant you know go to the blue square and you'll get something nice or you know when it doesn't vibrate that means you've got to like not go to that one. But unfortunately for the bees we didn't play their music. So we did end up playing ourselves music.

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