Bumblebees Demonstrate Tool Use and Advanced Timing Skills in New Study
A recent study has revealed that bumblebees possess surprising intelligence, demonstrating the ability to use tools to solve problems and exhibiting advanced timing skills that have baffled researchers.
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‘They surprise me every time’: bees can use tools to solve problems, study finds
Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that demonstrate their remarkably advanced cognitive abilities. The bees were given an adapted version of an experiment that, 100 years ago, first demonstrated chimpanzees could work out how to retrieve an out-of-reach banana by stacking boxes. Since then, various other primates, elephants and crows have join...
By Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
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