Do bees recognize their beekeeper by facial identification? By exploiting the floral constancy and insatiability of bees, we are subjecting foragers to reinforcement learning: we are conditioning them to recognise a beekeeper by associating a reward solely with a photo of his face. The experiment consists of varying the faces proposed and recording their performance in finding the sugar water. …
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Turning a coin on itself is a trivial gesture. But when you see that a can move and vibrate for several minutes, it’s easy to think that there’s something interesting to study behind this movement. And that’s what we did. But taking measurements, when the movement of the coin seems so complex, required us to set up experiments that we …