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 Around 60% of bees are eventually able to learn to use the string after being either directly instructed, or by watching an experimenter perform the task. Interestingly, if the experimenter demonstrates the task using a thin, nylon string (which the bees can’t see), none of the bees learn to use the string later on. This indicated to the authors that bees were attending to the string rather than the movement itself as a cue to use the tool. Around 60% of bees are eventually able to learn to use the string after being either directly instructed, or by watching an experimenter perform the task. Interestingly, if the experimenter demonstrates the task using a thin, nylon string (which the bees can’t see), none of the bees learn to use the string later on. This indicated to the authors that bees were attending to the string rather than the movement itself as a cue to use the tool.
  
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 Ants have around 250,000 neurons,((See Figure 4c in Godfrey et al., “Allometric analysis of brain cell number in Hymenoptera suggests ant brains diverge from general trends.” //The Royal Society//, March 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0199)) about a quarter as many as honeybees. Although we couldn’t find an estimate of how many synapses they have, extrapolating from humans and bees (each of which has around three orders of magnitude more synapses than neurons) suggests that they have around 250 million synapses.  Ants have around 250,000 neurons,((See Figure 4c in Godfrey et al., “Allometric analysis of brain cell number in Hymenoptera suggests ant brains diverge from general trends.” //The Royal Society//, March 2021. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0199)) about a quarter as many as honeybees. Although we couldn’t find an estimate of how many synapses they have, extrapolating from humans and bees (each of which has around three orders of magnitude more synapses than neurons) suggests that they have around 250 million synapses. 
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 //Primary author: Aysja Johnson// //Primary author: Aysja Johnson//
  
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