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New research has found that you don’t need a massive brain to do maths.
In fact, the humble honeybee and its miniature noggin have been found to possess an innate ability to solve problems.
Boffins at the University of Sheffield have discovered that bees are able to pass a test relying on continuous, non-numerical cues rather than numbers.
The task used for the study, which is common in research into animals’ ability to count, involved a sugary treat being hidden behind one of a number of placards. Each of them then had a different number of shapes displayed on it.
Honeybees were individually trained to identify placards showing different numbers of shapes.
Some learned to find a sugary tidbit at the placards that had the most shapes on display, while others found the treat at the placards showing the fewest number of shapes
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