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Bold bees on a sugar buzz


But Perry and his colleagues think this is unlikely. The bees’ behavior didn’t speed up overall in response to the sugar solution; they were as slow as ever getting to the blue card that signaled unappealing water.

The fact that optimism — or something like it — exists in an invertebrate suggests that the feeling may have an evolutionary root, Mendl and Paul write. One function of “affective states,” they say, could be to inform animals’ decision-making strategies when balancing the need for food with the fear of predators.

Source: Bees are bold when they’re on a sugar buzz – The Washington Post

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I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.
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