Honey Bees Can Zero in on the Advanced Concept of Zero (IMAGE)

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Honey Bees Can Zero in on the Advanced Concept of Zero

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いかにしてミツバチがある時間をかけて要素の組合せの中から要素が少ない方を正解として選ぶことを学ぶか、またその後にゼロ個の要素とより多い要素を含む問題を示された時、ゼロが数の中で一番小さいことをミツバチが理解しているかを示す図式。 This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 8, 2018 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.R. Howard at RMIT University in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees."

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Composite image by Scarlett Howard, Jair Garcia and Adrian Dyer

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