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SUBMITTER: MaBouDi H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7750931 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
MaBouDi HaDi H Galpayage Dona H Samadi HS Gatto Elia E Loukola Olli J OJ Buckley Emma E Onoufriou Panayiotis D PD Skorupski Peter P Chittka Lars L
Integrative and comparative biology 20201001 4
Most research in comparative cognition focuses on measuring if animals manage certain tasks; fewer studies explore how animals might solve them. We investigated bumblebees' scanning strategies in a numerosity task, distinguishing patterns with two items from four and one from three, and subsequently transferring numerical information to novel numbers, shapes, and colors. Video analyses of flight paths indicate that bees do not determine the number of items by using a rapid assessment of number ( ...[more]