Maybe you missed this tidbit in the news, so let me catch you up. A group of researchers has been training bees to do tricks, aka “nonnatural object manipulation.” Last Saturday evening I was searching through a scientific journal for articles about bees. (Reading articles about bees is our idea of a fun Saturday night, and it is a big reason why my husband and I can get by with a very low entertainment budget.) Imagine my surprise when I read a title in the journal PLOS Biology called, “Associated Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect.” Continue reading
People Are Training Bees to Play Soccer!
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