What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees Buchmann Stephen L.
What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees Buchmann Stephen L. For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. She may be using her sensitive olfactory organs,…
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What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees Buchmann Stephen L.
For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. She may be using her sensitive olfactory organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools.
She may even be tracking an electrostatic path left by other bees.What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees' mysterious paths and experience their alien world.Although their brains are incredibly small--just one million neurons compared to humans' 100 billion--bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions relayed by a hive-mate. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee's way of seeing the world