| Description |
xviii, 278 pages : illustrations (black and white) diagrams, photographs ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
A bee's life -- The remarkable bee brain -- Bees living together -- What bees sense and perceive -- Bees and flowers: love story or arms race? -- Finding many lovers -- Bee smart -- Master builders and memory -- Sleep and dreaming in bees -- What do bees feel? -- Self-awareness, consciousness, and cognition -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
"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 a bee’s mind reminds us that the world is more complex than our senses can tell us."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibiographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Bees -- Behavior.
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Cognition in animals.
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| ISBN |
9781642831245 |
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1642831247 |
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