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Lhasa-Tedi-luv t1_j35d38m wrote

Yay Bees!

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TheBlackCycloneOrder t1_j35emo6 wrote

Bees are also the only known creature (outside from humans) that can communicate using symbols (they draw circles with lines to indicate where flowers are, the faster their movements, the more important the bee thinks it is)

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whatatwit OP t1_j35dywg wrote

Did you see that bumblebees seem to like playing with tiny coloured balls just for fun?

> A team of UK scientists watched bees interacting with inanimate objects as a form of play and said the findings added to growing evidence that their minds are more complex than previously imagined.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/27/bumblebees-playing-wooden-balls-bees-study

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Lhasa-Tedi-luv t1_j35ehyj wrote

That is super cool-

I tried to find a Reddit post from a guy who had this bee just hang out with him all day (maybe a day and a half?). The bee clearly was drawn to him- it was very cute.

The creatures on this planet are just so awesome❤️

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whatatwit OP t1_j35ihf2 wrote

I remember the story it went on for a few days. I got the impression that the supporting cast was female and she made little activities and enrichments because the bee had a damaged wing.

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limee89 t1_j37o72r wrote

I always knew that bees would take over the planet as our overlords some day. All hail the bees! :p

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whatatwit OP t1_j37s9f7 wrote

Ha ha! Long may the bees continue their reign. They've been here a long, long time.

Meanwhile, it's possible that jellyfish and other blobby things that won't be dissolved by the acidity will inherit the oceans.

> ''The exploding jellyfish population has disrupted everything from the fish sourced in the Bering Sea for McDonald's Filet-O-Fish to the beluga caviar industry.

> ''I could point to more than 400 other big examples around the world where they've wiped this out, they've taken over that, they've squeezed that out, they've closed that industry. It's just astonishing at how well they're doing in disturbed ecosystems."

> Gershwin says her book Stung! was described by one critic as a "second Silent Spring" in reference to Rachel Carson's influential 1962 book that warned the world how pesticides were affecting the environment. As with Carson's warning, people seem unaware about what is happening to our oceans.

> That's the thing. I talk to so many people, including really smart scientists who, I think culturally, just don't think past the damage. We think, eww, climate change, that sounds bad, sea level rise, but we don't think about who inherits those damaged ecosystems.

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/blooms-blobs-and-stingers-submerged-in-the-world-of-jellyfish-20180810-h13sk4.html

(BTW yes, Lisa Gershwin is a relative of George Gerschwin)

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