Footballing Bees Shed New Light On Insect Intelligence

We bet these guys are good on the wing: bumblebees have been taught to play football by a team at Queen Mary University of London.

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The team trained the bees to dribble a ball into a round goal in three different ways: some observed a previously trained bee scoring a goal, some watched the ball being moved into the goal by a magnet, and others simply ‘found’ the ball in the goal. The bees were rewarded with a sugary treat for a successful &ls