Current events 4

Brainy Bees know two from three
Jack Dykinga/ARS
Feb.18.2009
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20090218/Note3.asp

This article describes the ability of bees to recognize the pattern which is based on the different number of elements in it. For example, the bees can make a difference between three or four dots of one color, and they can later find some numbers of elements in another color.
Similar research experiments were done with other animals such as penguins, or dolphins, but there are only a few concerning such small and tiny creatures like bees. The scientists Zhang from the Australian National University in Canberra. He is studying honeybees since 1980, and he is often surprised how clever they are. These scientists did experiment to "Brain" the 20 bees to pass through the tunnel to find the different number of colored dots which they should connect with some number on the exit, (in the end). If the bees did good, they would get a reward- sugar snacks, and they did great in more than 70% of cases. The bees later pass more different tests, they make differences between the same number of objects but in different shapes and colors (three green leaves and three yellow stars).
All of this may sound pretty silly for some people, but as scientists said, an average person can remember objects at times, so the small bees aren't dumb at all. And who knows what else scientists will discover!
Personal Message: Those bees remind me of dogs; they do what the owner tells them to do, then they get a treat!!!!