See how these bumblebees squeeze through tiny spaces
Sridhar Ravi was outdoors with his colleagues on a summer day in Germany when a group of bumblebees grabbed his attention. As the bees made their way from flower to flower, they skillfully flew between obstacles, dodging branches and shrubs. These actions seemed to require a complex awareness of one s physical body in relation to ones environment that had only been proven to exist in animals with large brains. To examine this, a team of researchers at Australias University of New South Wales, Canberra,
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