Can Bees Do Cognitive Demanding?

Bees may do simple calculation, credit to Bright Side

Since long time ago, human being did know that bees can do pollination and collecting foods (pollen and nectar). Nectar is processed to be well known product called honey.

Then, honey is stored in the honeycombs for future use when bees face with extreme conditions such as no flowers to collect pollen and nectar, and bees unable to forage due to many reasons.

Because of its full of nutrients, honey is one of ideal foods, thus, unfortunately, the bee’s honey is searched by many creatures, and include be stolen by human.

The question is: Can Bees Do Cognitive Demanding? Yes, bees can be trained to do simple calculation which are subtracting and adding. We might ask another question: what the points or implication?

Some of implications are following:

1) We understand that by able to do simple calculation means that bees could distinguish which flowers are essential and which are not, based on shape. Size and distant from their hive. Then, they can memorize those flowers easily.

2) Scientists surprise that bee’s tiny brain has extraordinary ability to conduct many tasks include to learn arithmetic symbols, memorize and do calculation (addition and subtraction).

3) Scientists could use bee’s cognitive ability to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) where computer can do self learning process and solve novel problems.

Finally, human being has possibility to develop skill, know how, cultures and even technology by understanding and learning from ability of a small creature such as a bee. What do you think?