Never underestimate the small brain of the bee!
It's been found out that the small brain of the bee is actually quite neuroplastic and has a complex cognitive structures for learning and teaching new skills - just like us humans.
Research from the Queen Mary University of London has taught the bees to pull a string in order to receive a treat. For the full scientific paper see:
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002564
These bees then went off and brought other bees to the string and taught them the same process. This was plainly a transference of skill and process. Eventually this skill spread to all of the hive, and colony and worker bees then engaged in the exact same behaviour.
Bee-tastic!
Clever bees. I'll love to watch them even more now.
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Me too!
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Intelligent little supporters, we need them su much and should do everything to protect them!
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I can now see why they are so popular in Steemit posts!
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(I see them in the timelines daily!!)
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I love to watch them fly in and out of a beehive. They are amazing little creatures. Every day different situation with them. Give them respect.
Edit: when new bees are born they come out from hive and first learn to fly , then they learn surroundings. New ones receive informations and knowledge from older bees . Life of a bee is short , 5-6 weeks so they need to learn quick. It is like Borg collective from Star Trek.
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FULL RESPECT GIVEN BY @mindhunter :-)
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Thans, bees makes you wonder ....such small creature with a task so big...for what purpose we are here on planet Earth. We have a task of destroying everything. We dont make natural structures , we polute , we make everything wrong. Nature cant compensate our wrong doings.
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All those pesky pesticides are killing the mini-Borgs! GRRRRRRR!
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"Assimilate Assimilate....sorry!....Nectarise, Nectarise!"
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"Return to Borg cube...sorry!...beehive for regeneration!"
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it's the bees knees. the buzz is growing about the sting of the loss of the bees. the humans aren't bad. we just need to get rid of the cancerous mutations. if we don't, we'll have our colony collapse.
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...and the same goes for Steemit too ;)
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A Steem price LOW of $0.27 this morning! OUCH!!
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P.S. Want to help the bees? I also found this article this morning: http://www.popsci.com/what-everyone-can-do-to-help-declining-bee-population
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I already have a home for my bombus! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Esschert-Design-Wood-Bee-House/dp/B000AMWT34/
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Quality article with buzz!
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Thanks for buzzing around @lynchiandream
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That's crazy how smart some animals can be. Birds, especially are crazy smart. Almost scary, in fact. They've done some research with crows that would blow your mind.
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Bees vs Crows - Intelligence test - Who wins??
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I don't know. All I do know, is it's scary how smart they are. Octopi are wicked smart, too.
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For me: Bees >> Octopi >> Crows :)
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I know, right? lol
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Octopi - I do love that word!
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Yes, Bees are very important for our nature!
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We need a BeeCoin to protect the bombus! Ha ha!
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