What a bee knows : exploring the thoughts, memories, and personalities of bees / Stephen Buchmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchmann, Stephen L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bees--Behavior.

Bees.

Cognition in animals.

Physical Description:

xviii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The next time you hear the low buzzing sound of an approaching bee, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She might be responding to scents on the breeze as her olfactory organs provide a 3D map of an object's location. She might be tracing the route based on her memories of a particular flower or the electrostatic traces left by other bees. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees' mysterious pathways and experience their complex and alien world. Although their brains are incredibly small--just one million neurons compared to humans' 100 billion--bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee's way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. What a Bee Knows will challenge your idea of a bee's place in the world--and perhaps our own."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 A Bee's Life

ch. 2 The Remarkable Bee Brain

ch. 3 Bees Living Together

ch. 4 What Bees Sense and Perceive

ch. 5 Bees and Flowers: Love Story or Arms Race?

ch. 6 Finding Many Lovers

ch. 7 Bee Smart

ch. 8 Master Builders and Memory

ch. 9 Sleep and Dreaming in Bees

ch. 10 What Do Bees Feel?

ch. 11 Self-Awareness, Consciousness, and Cognition.

Notes:

Includes bibiographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781642831245

1642831247

OCLC:

1355036930

Publisher Number:

99993292781