Honeycomb is a marvel of engineering, and if you interfere with the preferred method of placing the hexes, bees adapt in clever and beautiful ways. Bees may visit upwards towards 1000 flowers and each flower has it's unique mechanics in respect to the location of nectar and the perils that may befall one who is not knowledgeable. He shows that they are profoundly smart, have distinct personalities, can recognize flowers and human faces, exhibit basic emotions, count, use simple tools, solve problems, and learn by observing others. Lars Chittka is a world's expert insect behaviorist who studies honey bees and bumblebees in his UK laboratory.

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We also learn that bees sleep and perhaps dream, that they are self-aware, and may even experience simple emotions or have a primitive sort of consciousness.Detailed and informative, with a good deal of experimental and historical evidence to support the author’s points. Exploring an insect whose sensory experiences rival those of humans, The Mind of a Bee reveals the singular abilities of some of the world s most incredible creatures. Hardback, 260 pages including introduction, afterword, acknowledgments, notes and bibliography, illustration credits, and index.

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decades of work in which claims were made that bees failed all kinds of surprising simple tasks – discriminating squares from triangles, for example – had been flawed: since bees need to invest time in scanning the shapes, a quicker solution for them was simply to be indiscriminant. Originally they did this to get to a reward of sugar syrup, but the scientists noticed that the bees continued to kick the football while ignoring the reward – so seemingly just for fun. This book will be useful for scientists and readers who are studying biology, animal behaviour, neurophysiology, and evolution.In een pikdonkere omgeving liet hij een bij los op een paar bolletjes waar een druppel nectar in verborgen zat en op een paar kubussen zonder nectar. Dit opzienbarende experiment is maar een van de vele die Chittka beschrijft in Het bewustzijn van de bij, zijn boek op basis van dertig jaar onderzoek.

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Next up is the question and instinct vs learning, detailing experiments on the capacity of bees to learn. I enjoyed listening to this book, the way it was organized in short chapters all of which culminate towards one conclusion: the complexity of bees behavior and life. Our blue pollen looks like queen Anne’s thimble but I am not familiar with this plant though it may grow in a nearby garden. Throughout each chapter, Chittka includes and explains (in layman's terms) the studies that give possible explanations to each chapter's question. 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?Rather than just mimic the procedure, the new bees optimized the process, moving the closest ball to the goal. They don’t like bitter or sour substances with the exception of some neonicontinoids used as pesticides.

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A few local lime trees have finished flowering already but some have yet to open up and secrete nectar so we may get a crop of lime honey this year, but the cooler weather makes this unlikely. een meer technisch boek dan ik had verwacht over de capaciteiten van bijen aangaande intelligentie, geheugen, oriëntatie, enz. Bees and ants can see in ultraviolet, which we can’t see, but are largely blind to red, which we can. Lars Chittka presents work ranging over many decades exploring how bees sense the world, learn, solve problems, and communicate. Audiobooks give you the opportunity to read while simultaneously doing things that would be hard to do with a physical book in your hands, which also means that you are not always going to have the full concentration needed for such a fact filled book like this one.It provides a clear introduction to the field for amateur bee lovers as well as a nuanced and up-to-date summary for professionals. By looking at the world through the lens of a bee, readers will develop tools to better understand the distinct and vivid experiences of tiny invertebrates that are too frequently ignored. We learn that a bee’s brain has a million nerve cells compared with 86 billion in human brains, but that the bee nerve cells are complex, highly-branched structures resembling a mature oak tree and that each cell makes connections with 10,000 other nerve cells. Bees need to sleep and will rest several hours each day during the eternal daylight of polar summer.