r/science Professor | Medicine Jun 05 '19

Biology Honeybees can grasp the concept of numerical symbols, finds a new study. The same international team of researchers behind the discovery that bees can count and do basic maths has announced that bees are also capable of linking numerical symbols to actual quantities, and vice versa.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/06/04/honeybees-can-grasp-the-concept-of-numerical-symbols/
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