(THE CONVERSATION) – The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a misguided forbidden experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king could ...

Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like we humans do with Arabic and Roman numerals. Language is the ability to learn and use a system of ...

Passing down shared knowledge from one generation to the next is a hallmark of culture and allows animals to rapidly adapt to a changing environment. While widely evident in species ranging from human ...

A new experiment in which bees were trained to associate symbols with numbers suggests we can communicate with insects in ways not thought possible. An Australian-French collaboration is claiming to ...

The honeybee waggle dance has long been lauded as one of the planet's most complex animal communication systems, second only to human language in terms of its ability to transmit diverse information ...

Social insects like bees demonstrate a remarkable range of behaviors, from working together to build structurally complex nests (complete with built-in climate control) to the pragmatic division of ...

Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Elizabeth Jayne White, Jair Garcia, and Scarlett Howard do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...