Now showing on my YouTube channel:
- The remarkable cognitive skills and tool-making abilities of crows (see this post)
- A documentary about Clive Wearing, who has the most severe case of amnesia ever documented.
- The alien jaws of the moray eel (explained here)
- Crop-raiding chimps (explained here)
- Asphyxio-balling (which is something that bees do, and not a fetish indulged in by Members of Parliament).
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I have been very intrigued by your bee posts and have done some digging around on the subject of intelligence in bees. I've discovered that bees have memory and pattern recognition skills but I haven't found much about the structure of their brains or their neural activity. Can you point me to some studies of this?