What bees really see.

PositionBEE-HAVIOR - Brief article

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Next time you're tempted to swat at a buzzing bee, keep this in mind: Bees can recognize faces. In fact, they do it in much the same way that humans do, say biologists at the Universite de Toulouse in France. Both bees and humans use a technique called configural processing, piecing together the parts of a face--eyes, ears, nose, mouth--to form a recognizable pattern. To test bees, the researchers created a display of hand-drawn images, some faces and some not. The faces had bowls of...

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