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Researchers have found honey bees can do basic mathematics.
Australian scientists managed to teach bees how to add and subtract in order to solve a maze.
They used incentives to encourage the bees to keep coming back to the maze and after about 100 attempts the bees grasped that if the room was blue they had to add 1 if it was yellow they had to take one away.
They then had to count the number on the door to work out which door had the sugar solution behind.
This blows my mind!! How can something so small be able to manipulate information like this. Have any of you ever witnessed bees doing anything that required two stages of processing like this?
You can read the full article here
Australian scientists managed to teach bees how to add and subtract in order to solve a maze.
They used incentives to encourage the bees to keep coming back to the maze and after about 100 attempts the bees grasped that if the room was blue they had to add 1 if it was yellow they had to take one away.
They then had to count the number on the door to work out which door had the sugar solution behind.
This blows my mind!! How can something so small be able to manipulate information like this. Have any of you ever witnessed bees doing anything that required two stages of processing like this?
You can read the full article here
