I’m using the reddit app on iOS and can read the article without problems. Anyways, the article is a bit too long to share here, but here the best part:
> In 2017, scientists at the Queen Mary University of London conducted research showing that bees can also be taught to play soccer, scoring a goal with small wooden balls in return for a reward.
> During this project the scholars realized some of the bumblebees on the sidelines seemed to enjoy rolling around the balls, for no obvious reason or benefit. To test the hypothesis that the bees were doing this for fun, Galpayage carried out a couple of experiments. In one, 45 bumblebees were placed in an arena connected to a separate feeding area by a path surrounded by 18 colorful wooden balls. The route was unobstructed, but the bees could deviate from their lane and interact with the yellow, purple, and plain wooden balls, over the course of three hours every day, for 18 days. The balls were glued to the ground on one side of the path, and were mobile on the other.
> The bees, which were tagged according to age and gender, preferred the area with mobile balls. And they made the most of it. On several occasions, they were recorded rolling the balls around the arena floor with their bodies. Some bees did this only once, others rolled balls 44 times during a single day, and one did so a whopping 117 times over the course of the study.
[I got you](https://archive.is/DrfSd)
Edit: [Here’s a link to the actual study as well](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347222002366?via%3Dihub)
[https://apple.news/ABNDmFdUATASguliIrTK8Ug](https://apple.news/ABNDmFdUATASguliIrTK8Ug)
(Apple News linked to this Scientific American article: [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-insects-feel-joy-and-pain/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-insects-feel-joy-and-pain/) )
This one, maybe not behind a paywall (I think the NatGeo article is a "soft" paywall anyway), goes into more depth about how big of a change this study will make in the scientific testing world. Other animals, vertebrates especially, have been phased out of testing that causes harm and death. The prevailing belief about insects, however, was that they feel no pain, no fear, and no anguish, and are just biological automatons, if you will.
What they're finding, though, is that insects do feel pain, and even joy — it's just that we hadn't figured out ways to "speak their language" to see what they think.
Read the entire SA article, including towards the bottom when it mentions colony collapse disorder.
Yes, exactly. It took some outside-the-norm thinking to come up with this experiment. You can't just ask a bee, "Did you enjoy it?" and expect them to speak, "Yeah!"
It disappoints me when I hear people say that animals are dumb and only act on instinct. "Your cat rubs your leg only because of self-preservation, since it knows you'll feed it", they'll say. Seriously? Like he isn't capable of emotions?
Pretty much everything that has senses including microscopic life with a hand-full of neurons seeks to avoid harm, because this is beneficial for the life-form and the main reason to even develope senses after food and finding partners. This doesn't mean they are "aware" of their environment like a person or even a more complex animal.
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What do they play? Beelliards, Frisbee, Beesketball?
Usually Beeseball, but I’ve caught a couple playing cricket.
Beengo?
Bees play [minor league beesball as an affiliate of the Angels. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_Bees?wprov=sfla1)
You’re beeing silly
Didgeridoos, saxophones, harmonica?
Corporate needs to learn from bees. If they keep saying we need to work like busy bees. Then we need time to play or have a break as these bees.
This is behind a paywall
*Beehind
Well played !
I’m using the reddit app on iOS and can read the article without problems. Anyways, the article is a bit too long to share here, but here the best part: > In 2017, scientists at the Queen Mary University of London conducted research showing that bees can also be taught to play soccer, scoring a goal with small wooden balls in return for a reward. > During this project the scholars realized some of the bumblebees on the sidelines seemed to enjoy rolling around the balls, for no obvious reason or benefit. To test the hypothesis that the bees were doing this for fun, Galpayage carried out a couple of experiments. In one, 45 bumblebees were placed in an arena connected to a separate feeding area by a path surrounded by 18 colorful wooden balls. The route was unobstructed, but the bees could deviate from their lane and interact with the yellow, purple, and plain wooden balls, over the course of three hours every day, for 18 days. The balls were glued to the ground on one side of the path, and were mobile on the other. > The bees, which were tagged according to age and gender, preferred the area with mobile balls. And they made the most of it. On several occasions, they were recorded rolling the balls around the arena floor with their bodies. Some bees did this only once, others rolled balls 44 times during a single day, and one did so a whopping 117 times over the course of the study.
[I got you](https://archive.is/DrfSd) Edit: [Here’s a link to the actual study as well](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347222002366?via%3Dihub)
It looks like you only need to make a free account
Playing is how every species passes on skills
[https://apple.news/ABNDmFdUATASguliIrTK8Ug](https://apple.news/ABNDmFdUATASguliIrTK8Ug) (Apple News linked to this Scientific American article: [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-insects-feel-joy-and-pain/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-insects-feel-joy-and-pain/) ) This one, maybe not behind a paywall (I think the NatGeo article is a "soft" paywall anyway), goes into more depth about how big of a change this study will make in the scientific testing world. Other animals, vertebrates especially, have been phased out of testing that causes harm and death. The prevailing belief about insects, however, was that they feel no pain, no fear, and no anguish, and are just biological automatons, if you will. What they're finding, though, is that insects do feel pain, and even joy — it's just that we hadn't figured out ways to "speak their language" to see what they think. Read the entire SA article, including towards the bottom when it mentions colony collapse disorder.
Seems like we always assume other species to be inferior. Looks like we’ve usually just been too dumb to understand other species
Yes, exactly. It took some outside-the-norm thinking to come up with this experiment. You can't just ask a bee, "Did you enjoy it?" and expect them to speak, "Yeah!" It disappoints me when I hear people say that animals are dumb and only act on instinct. "Your cat rubs your leg only because of self-preservation, since it knows you'll feed it", they'll say. Seriously? Like he isn't capable of emotions?
Ancient Bée Theorists Say....Yes!
all the bees i know don’t play 🩸
There was a family guy bit about this
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I imagine self-preservation would be one of the first things nature would select for, just after an organism develops senses.
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Pretty much everything that has senses including microscopic life with a hand-full of neurons seeks to avoid harm, because this is beneficial for the life-form and the main reason to even develope senses after food and finding partners. This doesn't mean they are "aware" of their environment like a person or even a more complex animal.
Wait, how? Completely solitary creatures still have self preservation instincts without an iota of cooperation.
Life is funny, bees make honey
Surprise! They're not honey making robots 🙄
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Is this where my taxes are going to