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New Study Reveals Secrets of Honey Bee Waggle Dance
There are several factors that make detecting direction challenging for the observing bees. One is that the dances take place inside a dark hive.
What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?
Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice.
Pushing Insect Welfare
Of course, we know that insects are not inanimate. A fly senses when you try to swat it.
What Is It Like to Be a Bee?
What, exactly, does “consciousness” or “feel and think” mean when applied to a bee? This usage is no remote outpost.