02.08.10
Bees recognize human faces
Bees Recognize Human Faces Using Feature Configuration
ScienceDaily (Feb. 8, 2010) — Going about their day-to-day business, bees have no need to be able to recognise human faces. Yet in 2005, when Adrian Dyer from Monash University trained the fascinating insects to associate pictures of human faces with tasty sugar snacks, they seemed to be able to do just that. But Martin Giurfa from the Université de Toulouse, France, suspected that that the bees weren’t learning to recognise people.