Bees can learn the difference between European and Australian Indigenous art styles in a single afternoon
- Written by Andrew Barron, Associate Professor, Macquarie University
We’ve known for a while that honey bees are smart cookies. They have excellent navigation skills, they communicate symbolically through dance, and they’re the only insects that have been shown to learn abstract concepts.
Honey bees might also add the title of art connoisseur to their box of tricks. In part one of ABC Catalyst’s The...