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'Unbelievable' Video Shows 2 Bees Working to Open a Bottle
Even though we all recognize bees for their importance in the food chain as pollinators, the crafty creatures have a series of other talents, including math ability, face recognition, and even tool use.
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... A 2021 video, originally posted on X (Twitter), showed a pair of bees apparently unscrewing the orange lid of a Fanta to reach the sugary liquid inside. In today's age of digital trickery, we have to be mindful that this could just be AI; or, perhaps the bees really did work together, and simply toppled an already loosely perched bottle cap. Either way, it's fun to think about whether bees would have the brains to pull off such a soda heist. According to ViralHog, the video licensor that acquired the footage, the moment was caught in So Paulo, Brazil by a worker on their lunch break. "I got a soda from a customer but soon the bees stole it," the person wrote in the video's caption. The smooth skill with which these two bees appear to twist the lid off a soda bottle baffled many on the internet, with some wondering how such intelligence exists in what is obviously a very tiny brain. ...
In today's age of digital trickery, we have to be mindful that this could just be AI; or, perhaps the bees really did work together, and simply toppled an already loosely perched bottle cap.
Either way, it's fun to think about whether bees would have the brains to pull off such a soda heist.
According to ViralHog, the video licensor that acquired the footage, the moment was caught in So Paulo, Brazil by a worker on their lunch break.
"I got a soda from a customer but soon the bees stole it," the person wrote in the video's caption.
The smooth skill with which these two bees appear to twist the lid off a soda bottle baffled many on the internet, with some wondering how such intelligence exists in what is obviously a very tiny brain. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-19 09:05 PM | Reply
Related?
Bees are sentient': inside the stunning brains of nature's hardest workers (2023) www.theguardian.com
... This March, Buchmann released a book that unpacks just how varied and powerful a bee's mind really is. The book, What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories and Personalities of Bees, draws from his own research and dozens of other studies to paint a remarkable picture of bee behavior and psychology. It argues that bees can demonstrate sophisticated emotions resembling optimism, frustration, playfulness and fear, traits more commonly associated with mammals. Experiments have shown bees can experience PTSD-like symptoms, recognize different human faces, process long-term memories while sleeping, and maybe even dream. Buchmann is part of a small but growing group of scientists doing what he calls "fringe" research seeking to understand the full emotional capacity of bees. His research has radically changed the way he relates to the insects " not only does he now avoid killing them in his house, he has also significantly reduced lethal and insensitive treatment of specimens for his research. "Two decades ago, I might have treated a bee differently," Buchmann says. ...
It argues that bees can demonstrate sophisticated emotions resembling optimism, frustration, playfulness and fear, traits more commonly associated with mammals. Experiments have shown bees can experience PTSD-like symptoms, recognize different human faces, process long-term memories while sleeping, and maybe even dream.
Buchmann is part of a small but growing group of scientists doing what he calls "fringe" research seeking to understand the full emotional capacity of bees. His research has radically changed the way he relates to the insects " not only does he now avoid killing them in his house, he has also significantly reduced lethal and insensitive treatment of specimens for his research.
"Two decades ago, I might have treated a bee differently," Buchmann says. ...
#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-19 09:08 PM | Reply
Maybe it's real maybe it isn't.
How would you know?
I am not saying bees aren't smart. They are smarter than some humans.
But if it's too good to be true then it probably isn't and you should be suspicious.
#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-20 02:05 PM | Reply
@#3
I'm still skeptical.
Maybe the two bees just happened to land on the bottle at the same time?
It is difficult to say without any apparent controlled situation.
#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-20 02:13 PM | Reply
I have my own bee hives on my property so I see them a lot. Never seen anything like that before, but if you walk outside with anything sweet to drink you may want to keep it covered. I keep the bird baths around the garden full of water so there's usually 20 or so drinking at each one.
#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-11-20 02:55 PM | Reply
#3 | Posted by donnerboy
Posted in 2021. It's real.
#6 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-11-20 04:20 PM | Reply
#6 | POSTED BY GALAXIEPETE
Gonna need more than your personal assurance bro.
AI was available in 2021.
From venturebeat.com
...
As we head into 2022, here's a quick look back at the milestones that shaped the AI space over the past 12 months.
To start the year, OpenAI announced DALL-E, a multimodal AI system that generated images from text. The company asserted that DALL-E could manipulate and rearrange objects in generated imagery and also create things that don't exist, like a cube with the texture of a porcupine or a chair that looks like an avocado.
Or possibly bees opening a bottle of soda? Y
#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-20 05:14 PM | Reply
Maybe Brazilian bees are more socially intelligent than North American bees?
It Could be real.
#8 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2024-11-20 08:35 PM | Reply
----------- much boys?
#9 | Posted by South_American at 2024-11-20 09:27 PM | Reply
It's a pretty crappy excuse for a science website that can't bother to verify the authenticity of videos they post.
#10 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-11-21 03:22 PM | Reply
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