The mind of a bee
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive mind--the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including his own pione...
| Main Author: | Chittka, Lars, 1963- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Seeing in Strange Colors
- 3 The Alien Sensory World of Bees
- 4 "It's Just Instinct"
- or Is It?
- 5 The Roots of Bee Intelligence and Communication
- 6 Learning about Space
- 7 Learning about Flowers
- 8 From Social Learning to "Swarm Intelligence"
- 9 The Brains Behind It All
- 10 "Personality" Differences between Bees
- 11 Do Bees Have Consciousness?
- 12 Afterword: What our Knowledge of Bees' Minds Means for Their Conservation
- Acknowledgements
- Notes and bibliography
- Illustration credits
- Index.