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Bees on Prozac?
News flash: this month Current Biology1 reported that that stressed bees have lower levels of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin and exhibit pessimism, a cognitive trait supposedly...
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The Rational Ant
In a recent post I described how pigeons are better than humans at solving the Monty Hall problem and might therefore prove to be formidable competitors on Let’s Make a Deal. In this post, I have some...
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Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Salesman and the Bumblebee?
Last fall, bumblebees enjoyed their moment in the sun, as a series of headlines proclaimed that they were mathematical geniuses: “Tiny Bee Brains Beat Computers at Complex Math Problems” – Fox News1...
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The Honeybee Waggle Dance – Is it a Language?
The Dance More than half a century ago, Karl von Frisch rocked the world of behavioral biology with his conclusion that the honeybees (Apis mellifera) can actually communicate the distance to and...
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