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Artificial Intelligence => General AI Discussion => Topic started by: Freddy on December 18, 2005, 12:01:43 am
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NEWS ITEM
Bumblebees Recognize People
By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News
Dec. 13, 2005 ?Don't be too proud of never forgetting a face: It turns out even a humble bumblebee can distinguish and recall different human faces, say researchers who have conducted experiments on the surprisingly canny insects.
MORE... (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051212/bumblebee_ani.html) ?
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Interesting article Freedy.
Guess I'll have to BEE careful around my friend's apiary! >:D
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I know they tell you what they did, but how the hell was that experiment conducted exactly?
How exactly did they "remember" ? lol
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Good question, how did they do that ? I saw something about the way insects see a long time ago in a science mag and still can't figure out how they went about doing it. On other mysteries though, was BUZZ Aldrin really the second man on the moon?
ho ho ho
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AND...did Adam ANT really do a song called Love BITES??!!!
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I think you 2 are talkin a load of ol bees wax hehe
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lol Sounds like a lot of folks BEE BUSY for the holidays coming up with these cute puns. ;)
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Bumble-bees cant recognize faces, they see very odd flowers, but not faces.
It's very much like being put in front of identical chairs, then given a reward to recognize them again, when all you know is that one's got a scratch...you get the idea...
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Probably very true. The last I heard, bees respond to patterns in the flower - kind of like seeing landing strips. For something so highly evolved in one task, it seems ridiculess that a bee would also (and for no reason) be profficient in telling one face from another.
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Also considering their lifespan too, it seems all the more remarkable/implausable.
I can see from genetics/evolving they can differentiate between flowers etc...but as you say, faces? not so sure.
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Unless, of course, they are evoloving to start delivering the honey straight to your door....