Bumblebees Recognize Objects Through Sight and Touch, A Complex Cognitive Feat (3 of 10) (IMAGE)

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Bumblebees Recognize Objects Through Sight and Touch, A Complex Cognitive Feat (3 of 10)

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Photo depiction of training, bee learns in light (no touch) to find sugar water in sphere (and not in cubes). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 21 Feb. issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Solvi at Queen Mary University of London in London, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Bumble bees display cross-modal object recognition between visual and tactile senses."

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[Credit: Lars Chittka]

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