Math Bee: Honeybees Seem To Understand The Notion Of Zero

Using card with black symbols, researchers trained honeybees to understand that sugar water would always be located under a card with the least number of symbols — including when presented with a card that was totally blank.

Research shows that bees possess a mathematical ability once thought to exist only in dolphins, primates, birds and humans who are beyond the preschool years.

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Math Bee: Honeybees Seem To Understand The Notion Of Zero
By Nell Greenfieldboyce

June 7, 2018 at 11:11AM
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