The honeybee waggle dance has long been lauded as one of the planet's most complex animal communication systems, second only to human language in terms of its ability to transmit diverse information ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a misguided forbidden experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king could ...

What can two types of honey bees contribute to humanity? Their language is helping researchers develop a universal distance-direction calibration tool that identifies their foraging location. Humans ...

Humans learn language from their elders. And the same is true of honey bees. Biologists who study bees have known that forager bees can find food in the wild and tell others in the hive where it is.

Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like ...

Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like we humans do with Arabic and Roman numerals. Language is the ability to learn and use a system of ...

A honeybee is performing the waggle dance in the center of this photo to communicate the location of a rich nectar source to its nestmates. Heather Broccard-Bell, CC BY-ND The Greek historian ...

Scarlett Howard received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship and is currently funded by the Fyssen Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the ...