Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Current Connection 2.1

In the article entitled, "Honey Bees Demonstrate Decision Making Process to Avoid Difficult Choices," tells how honey bees are like humans when it comes to getting out of difficult choices. Researchers even put the bees through a test.

The author says in the text, "The bees had to learn a rule to match a combination of shapes with nectar. A correct identification was rewarded with sweet nectar, but an incorrect decision resulted in a bitter tasting solution."  Bees learn about the same way we do by having bad results when something goes wrong.  Results in something going wrong make the bees try something different to make it better.

The article also says, "The size, shape, colour and positions of the targets were constantly changed during training so the bees had to learn a geometric rule to solve the task correctly."  Even the bees went through other obstacles that would be hard for some humans to achieve.  This proves that bees have a brain and it functions like a human brain.


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