The Mind of a Bee

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He thinks bees have emotions, can plan and imagine things, and can recognise themselves as unique entities distinct from other bees. He draws these conclusions from experiments in his lab with female worker bees. “Whenever a bee gets something right, she gets a sugar reward. That’s how we train them, for example, to recognise human faces.” In this experiment, bees shown several monochrome images of human faces learn that one is associated with a sugar reward. “Then, we give them a choice of different faces and no rewards, and ask: which do you choose now? And indeed, they can find the correct one out of an array of different faces.” The book’s bees astound; so too the clever humans who study them."---Robert Eagan, Library Journal, starred review een meer technisch boek dan ik had verwacht over de capaciteiten van bijen aangaande intelligentie, geheugen, oriëntatie, enz. , het boek is leuk verhalend gebracht en blijft door de verschillende hoofdstukken boeiend , het gaat wel wat minder over bewustzijn dan ik had verwacht , ... ik zou niet echt inzien waarom bewustzijn zou worden beperkt tot melk organismen , melk is een voedzaam product , hoe het precies aangemaakt wordt weet ik niet maar ik zou niet direct denken dat er melk nodig is om bewustzijn te creëren , hoe dan wel weet ik niet ik zou het eerder wat zoeken in het elektromagnetische, dat positief/negatief geladen gedoe ,

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Researchers can follow the wandering of individual bees by attaching a 15 mg transponder. Unclear whether the bees can get a wifi signal. Bees are not a "hive mind" like you see in science fiction (no animal is, as far as we can tell), each bee is very much an individual and can have its own ideas about itself and the world. Bees can taste with their mouthparts, antenna, and with their feet. They can’t be fooled by artificial sweeteners like saccharine. They don’t like bitter or sour substances with the exception of some neonicontinoids used as pesticides.I have an aquaintance here in S. London who is a gardener and he is snowed under with people who want wild flower meadows in place of their lawns… Bees need to sleep and will rest several hours each day during the eternal daylight of polar summer. ARE we ready for the radical message that an insect may have a form of consciousness? I am not sure. Thanks to Lars Chittka’s captivating account of bees’ thinking and feeling, I now look with fresh eyes at these small animals. They plan ahead, feel pain, and express their very own personalities. The ingenious experimental evidence Chittka offers in support of these and many other points is as convincing as it is fascinating.”―Barbara J. King, author of Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

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A wonderful journey into the fascinating world of bee intelligence and consciousness."— Conservation BiologyQuite simply a magnificent book. No one knows the mind of a bee better than Lars Chittka. A satisfying blend of sound science and spellbinding storytelling. I was mesmerized from the start.”—George McGavin, zoologist, author, and broadcaster