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learning
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mutualism
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- ISBN 9781642833911
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2024
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee
has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She may be using her sensitive olfactory
organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions
relayed by a hive-mate. She may even be tracking electrostatic traces left on flowers by other bees. What a Bee Knows:
Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees’ mysterious paths and experience their
alien world.
Although their brains are incredibly small—just one million neurons compared to humans’ 100 billion—bees have
remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen
Buchmann explores a bee’s way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. We travel into the field and to the laboratories of noted bee biologists who have spent their careers digging into the questions
most of us never thought to ask (for example: Do bees dream? And if so, why?). With each discovery, Buchmann’s
insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder is infectious.
What a Bee Knows will challenge your idea of a bee’s place in the world—and perhaps our own. This lively journey into abee’s mind reminds us that the world is more complex than our senses can tell us.
has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She may be using her sensitive olfactory
organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions
relayed by a hive-mate. She may even be tracking electrostatic traces left on flowers by other bees. What a Bee Knows:
Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees’ mysterious paths and experience their
alien world.
Although their brains are incredibly small—just one million neurons compared to humans’ 100 billion—bees have
remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen
Buchmann explores a bee’s way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. We travel into the field and to the laboratories of noted bee biologists who have spent their careers digging into the questions
most of us never thought to ask (for example: Do bees dream? And if so, why?). With each discovery, Buchmann’s
insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder is infectious.
What a Bee Knows will challenge your idea of a bee’s place in the world—and perhaps our own. This lively journey into abee’s mind reminds us that the world is more complex than our senses can tell us.
