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Inside the mind of a bee, with Prof Lars Chittka

Instant Genius

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Bees Can Learn to Avoid the Flowers With Predation Threat

The bees can learn to avoid individual flowers as well as artificial flower species with predation threat. But there was something else that e that was really remarkable, and that was that the bees whole demeanour changed. They became, over ar much more hesitant to land on flowers. The most remarkable phenomenon was what were so called false alarms. That is, the bees scanned a flower and d then rejected it, even if it was perfectly safe. So this is a kind of phenomenon that's almost reminiscent of postromatextress disorder where you're actually responding to threats that are not actually in existence. Feels like an imaginative act, thy dear, exactly. I perceived that indeed, ye

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