Published in Science · View the paper (DOI)
Researchers trained free-flying honey bees to recognize numbers from two to five, then introduced one and zero, demonstrating their ability to distinguish zero as lower than one.
Coverage from 3 institutions
- Honey bees can zero in on the advanced concept of zero American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) · Jun 7, 2018 · first to report
- Honeybees zero in on nothing RMIT University · Jun 7, 2018
- Bees and the thought of naught CNRS · Jun 8, 2018