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Given several flowers to visit in an unfamiliar patch, bumblebees don't just fly to whichever is nearest next — after a few exploratory trips, they converge on close to the shortes…
— Mathieu Lihoreau, Lars Chittka & Nigel E. Raine, Travel Optimization by Foraging Bumblebees through Readjustments of Traplines after Discovery of New Feeding Locations
Despite having a brain the size of a grass seed, honeybees trained with a sugar reward can pick out one specific human face from a lineup of photos, and even generalize the skill t…
— Adrian G. Dyer, Christa Neumeyer & Lars Chittka, Honey bee