The Mind of a Bee

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They can navigate complex environments, remember things from earlier, learn new things, and use tools. Sometimes this book had some sciency references that were a little hard for a lay person like me to follow, but overall this book was very easy to understand and was written very well.

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Rather than just mimic the procedure, the new bees optimized the process, moving the closest ball to the goal.The experiments themselves are so thoughtful and interesting, but they also help illuminate the mind of a bee without being anthropomorphic. het boek is leuk verhalend gebracht en blijft door de verschillende hoofdstukken boeiend , het gaat wel wat minder over bewustzijn dan ik had verwacht , . Failing to remember the route back to safety or falling prey to the many birds and spiders are the foremost reasons.

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At first he could follow at a trot, but soon he was off in full gallop and managed to stay with the swarm for four miles, when it finally settled in a neighbours garden in a pear tree. The small font seemed uninviting when I first began but fit the content and tone of the book quite well. Since the landmarks were identical, he could be sure the bees weren’t identifying a particular one when deciding how far to fly. The Mind of a Bee is a fascinating book that I hope will be read and understood by as broad an audience as possible, so that the important conclusions within may be shared more widely. Recommended for those with a scientific mind, but not for those interested in broad strokes that help connect a deeper understanding of bee life and/or sentience to their conservation in general.Bees continued to exhibit this anxious behaviour days after they had been attacked and sometimes even behaved “as if they were seeing ghosts. Lars Chittka brings in decades of experience as a student of bee behaviour, and his lab has performed some the coolest and most elegant experiments on bee behaviour. Moeilijk te beantwoorden, dacht de Duitse, in Londen werkende zoöloog en etholoog Lars Chittka een paar jaar geleden, want hoe zet je zo’n experiment op? I strongly recommend you read [Chittka’s] book and if you will excuse the pun ‘make your own mind up’.

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You also find the odd ‘genius bee’ that does something better than all the other individuals of a colony, or indeed all the other bees we’ve tested. Wild bees have adapted to humanities influence on life on Earth, using plastic to build nests, nesting in cities, or feeding on sugary waste from soda instead of flowers.It's also chock full of beautiful, full-color photos and illustrations of bees, flowers, anatomical diagrams, experimental setups, and charts visualizing results, which help a lot in making the material easy to grasp and appreciate. Domesticated bees do not fill the gap that wild bees leave, and they often quickly consume the food resources that wild bees need to survive on Earth. Veganism is a term used by people to denote not eating or using animal products for any number of ethical reasons. We can wish for no better guide than Lars Chittka for an accessible introduction to the wonders of bee intelligence.