Bees Have to Choose (IMAGE)

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Bees Have to Choose

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After learning that images depicting the fewest number of elements were matched with rewards, bees chose the blank image. This experiment demonstrates that these insects consider zero, the empty set, to be less than any whole number.

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© Scarlett Howard & Aurore Avarguès-Weber

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