Bees Know Counting

Bees Know Counting

Researchers have discovered that honey bees can count. Researchers of Queensland University put five markers inside a tunnel and placed nector in one of them. Honey bees placed in tunnel flew to the marker with the food, and would still fly to the same marker stripe when the food was removed.

“we find that, if you train them to third stripe, they will look subsequently in the third stripe”, said one of the researchers. If you train them to the fourth stripe, they will look the fourth stripe and so on. But their ability to count seems to go only up to four. They cannot count beyond four. The more we look at these creatures that have the brain, the size of sesame seed, the more astonished we are. They really have a lot of capacities that we so called higher human beings.