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What are the bees thinking?

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What do bees think about, Mathieu Lihoreau © Humensciences

By: Caroline Lachowsky

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What are the bees thinking?

Is it possible to get inside their head to perceive and feel the world, with an overdeveloped sense of smell, ultraviolet vision, an unparalleled sense of direction and a danceable communication... Welcome to the tiny and so fascinating brain of bees!

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Did you know that bees can count and learn from each other?

That they have emotions, an imagination, a collective or even individual consciousness?

So many questions opened by our guest ethologist Mathieu Lihoreau, who after being interested in the personality of cockroaches and the vote of flies (yes, I assure you, the vote!) is now studying the navigation of bumblebees and the learning about bees...

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, ethologist, researcher at the CNRS, specializing in the study of insect intelligence for the book

published by Humensciences.

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