Episode 297 – Bee Smart, Bee Bright

What can I say? I’m one of those people who consider bees fascinating creatures. Because of this, I took it very personally when multiple factors, some of which were of human origin, resulted in the disappearance of the honey bees from my gardens. But when I read about the research conducted by Aurore Avargues-Weber and Martin Giunfar, the subject of this week’s podcast, I felt much better. Surely any species that possesses cognitive abilities that we’ve claimed almost exclusively for ourselves, and possessed them long before we even existed deserves our admiration and respect.