Bees Can Learn to Use a Tool by Observing Others (VIDEO)

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As part of a training session, a fake, plastic bee is used to demonstrate to a real bee how to move a ball to the center of a ring. Once the ball is in the center of the ring, the bees are rewarded with a sucrose solution. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 24, 2017, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by O.J. Loukola at Queen Mary University of London in London, UK, and colleagues was titled, 'Bumblebees show cognitive flexibility by improving on an observed complex behavior.'

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O.J. Loukola <i>et al., Science</i> (2017)

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