There’s no hope for some of those. If you gave them brains the size of a bee or large, they’d just take them out and play with them.
Probably better than the college-educators and their prized bureaucrats who invented common core “math”; then forced it on the rest of the country...
That’s not arithmetic. They aren’t adding numbers. They have been trained to place one shape when they see yellow, remove it when they see blue. That, dear researchers, is not arithmetic. They aren’t adding or subtracting. Keep trying.
Ten bucks says that a lion can tell if there’s one wildebeest or four.
Glad this was Australia, can’t imagine what this very important very needed study cost.
Scarlett R. Howard1, Aurore Avarguès-Weber2, Jair E. Garcia1, Andrew D. Greentree3 and Adrian G. Dyer1,4,*
1Bio-inspired Digital Sensing (BIDS) Lab, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
2Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale (CRCA), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France.
3ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
4Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
Birds do it.
Bees do it.
Even educated fleas do it!.....................
Bees have been using exponential math and ultraviolet vision for eons. We have just figured out they can do simple math and see colors? Hey scientists! You guy still hold its impossible for Bumbles to even get off the ground as they fly away?
“Bees may have tiny brains, but they are surprisingly intelligent. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have conducted an experiment showing that bees can learn from their environment to gain a reward, and then teach other bees to do the same. But thats not all they can do.
I think the most important result in our case was that bumblebees can not just copy others but they can improve upon what they are learning, said Olli Loukola, the first author on the study published Thursday in Science. This is of course amazing for small-brained insects even for us, its difficult to improve on something when we are copying others.
In the experiment, the bees had to move a yellow ball into the center of a platform after the scientists demonstrated to the bees how to do it. Some bugs saw the ball move as though on its own, with researchers secretly moving it from below with a magnet. For other bees, the scientists moved the ball with a plastic bee on a stick. When the ball reached the center, the scientists added sugar water to reward the subjects.
Once the bees learned that the rewards arrived when the ball was situated in the right place, the bugs began to move the balls by themselves in subsequent trials.
The team then placed the trained bees on a platform with naïve bees. After observing the trained bees once, the untrained ones started to carry out the task, too. And not only did they copy the behavior, but the new recruits also improved on the action: They chose balls closer to themselves, even if the demonstrator bee picked a ball that was farther away.
These are, high, high, highly intelligent creatures. They use their neurons in their brain as efficiently as any other animal on the globe, said conservation biologist Reese Halter, who wasnt involved in the study. Theres little under a million neurons in a bee brain, which is approximately the number of neurons in one human retina. ....”
Because... college.
Yep.
I snuck in a bee in my pocket to help me on my Algebra final.
Turns out all he really knew was Geometry, so I got an F.
And then he stung me.
*ping*
Too funny (the pics)
I wonder how they presented the colors - all blue together and all yellow together or intermixed. My mind says it may be more a recognition of different sizes rather than a number calculation....but what do I know, I would have never thought of trying to prove bees can do basic math.
As a beekeeper and observer of bees for 20 years I am convinced that until we learn to communicate with bees, we can forget communicating with ET