Bees can have positive feelings, for example they can experience something akin to optimism. Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have discovered this.
Le api they can try positive feelings, for example, they may experience something akin to optimism. Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have discovered this.
According to the study recently published in Science: "We can't say that bees experience life the way we do, but at a basic level we know that bees can, in their own way, feel emotions."
Does it seem impossible for bees to feel emotions and feelings? Yet we already know very well that bees they are among the smartest animals in the world. According to experts, even if bees are unable to speak, they still know in a way how to convey what they feel.
For example, they found that bees feel much better and fly faster when fed something sweet. On this specific occasion, the experts found that it is as if the bees feel a burst of optimism.
The emotional states that bees experience change their behavior. For example, a group of bees that were fed sugary substances felt less fearful of the risk of being attacked by a spider.
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Researchers recall that the bees' brains are about the size of a sesame seed and that despite this, a large cognitive work from the point of view of emotions, feelings and interaction with the environment.
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We may never really know what bees feel because they are very different from us humans and perhaps we will never be able to assess what their emotions really are. According to experts, however, bees are not automatons that only think about survival but live in a more complex way than we think.
Marta Albè
