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Inside the mind of a bee, with Prof Lars Chittka

Instant Genius

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Is There a Difference Between Bees and Other Animals?

There are some remarkable performances of bees that, to my knowledge, have not been solved by other animals at all. So a team of friends of mine, adrian dyer and collegue's, recently tested bees to recognize odd or even numbers,. irrespective of the actual number of dots in a display. The bees were able to apparently classify the, the the targets as to whether they had two, four, six or eight even numbers - which is very unusual for insects. And so i suppose insignificant in a way. Tiht, youknow, tihe not not in any use, but in isheer size. Where does this put these in the kind of, we like to rank

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