BEES CAN COUNT

 Martin Giurfa is a Professor at the Research Centre on Animal Cognition, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France. He recently published an article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that suggests that bees are more like us than you might think.

“It has already been shown that bees are able to count—at least up to five”, he said. But, “they also process information differently in the two hemispheres of their brains” and “order numerically from left to right”. Just like most of us in fact..