If bees can do it, so can we

Aussie researchers have discovered that different honey bee species –  using an elaborate bum wiggle to communicate – can learn each other’s dialects. They bred and combined Asian and European bees into a single colony.

“Using video camera footage, scientists discovered that not only were the two getting along, but after a time, both were eventually able to decode each other’s bottom signals.”

(Great restraint was used when I wrote the header.)

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