QI - Stephen Fry and Alan Davies argue about Bees

Alan's got a point.
rychansays...

Alan misunderstands (or rather, Stephen didn't explain well), that the bees use dances, with orientations related to the Sun's position, to give directions to novel locations. It's not a matter of memory.

GeeSussFreeKsays...

Ya, it is a pretty awesome showing of animal communication. To my best knowledge, it is one of the only animal that has been shown to have causal communication ( that they communicate ideas and not just emotions). Go bees go!

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