Bumblebees are social learners who follow cultural trends, a new study suggests.
According to the study, it was long believed that the "astonishing behavioural repertoires of social insects" are innate.
There are two ways to open the dish and get at the sugar: The bees can either rotate the lid clockwise by pushing a red tab, or they can rotate it counter-clockwise by pushing a blue tab.Bridges and her colleagues trained some of the bees individually on each method. Then they introduced these "demonstrator bees" into larger colonies, and gave those groups access to the petri puzzles.
Alice Bridges is a senior lecturer in lecturer in biology and animal behaviour and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, who did her PhD at Queen Mary University of London. "All these things show that bees in the wild pay close attention to what ... the others are doing. They're not just acting in a vacuum," he said.There were, however, some elements of the study that took Cartar by surprise.
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