Daniel Hoffmann🌻Oct 25
The humble bumblebee has empathy (or a precursor thereof). So what's humble is not so much these animals than our imagination. https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adr0216?af=R
Positive affective contagion in bumble bees

Affective contagion, a core component of empathy, has been widely characterized in social vertebrates but its existence in any invertebrate is unknown. Using a cognitive bias paradigm we demonstrate positive affective contagion in bumble bees. After ...

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Honeybees, alert and aware of their siaters:

"a demonstrator’s positive attitude toward the potential for a reward was readily picked up by an observer."

#honeybees #Hymenoptera #entomology #behaviour

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