Do bees found ability in mathematics

Honeybees decrypt messages using their fellow mathematicians. American biologists, whose article published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, concluded that bees are able to calculate the average movement in the direction of "dancing" in which the insect "explorers" to report the whereabouts of flowers with nectars. Briefly the main findings of scientists led magazine New Scientist.

To tell their neighbors to ulyu on the whereabouts of flowers, bees use the "Dance" - defined for each set of movements (it has recently been shown that bees of different species can understand each other). So far, entomologists (scientists studying insects) were not sure exactly how the benefits of bees "dance" information on the whereabouts of the rich nectars of flowers. One of the theories assumed that the target sends a message that some movement, "hidden" among others.

Researchers from the University of California and Utah watching bees, who visited the artificial sugar flowers. They analyzed the movement who commit "explorers" in the "dance", and the direction where the flowers and where the rest of the bees. According to entomologists, insects are not targeted at any individual "Pas" and choose the direction of the average area of all movements "dance".

The researchers note that the ability to find the average for creatures with such small brain is a "remarkable". On the other hand, some colleagues authors believe that when searching for flowers with nectars bees may focus not only on the "dance" of their comrades, but also, for example, in the direction of movement of bees returning to the hive.