#animalcognition
#problemsolving
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A bumblebee, who had played with a ball before, fetches it to use it as a stool, reach a "blue flower" in the ceiling, and win a prize.
The first insect to do so.
Remarkable experiments, and videos.
Oca sapiens
1/4 Bumblebees can solve a task inspired by Köhler’s famous test with chimpanzees.
They had to reach an artificial “flower”, and to do so they had to integrate prior information about a ball that could be used to reach it.
(paper) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
by @olliloukola.bsky.social
