The Mind of a Bee / / Lars Chittka.
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 pionee...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 57 color illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- INDEX