Honeybees can recognize human faces

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Honeybees can recognize human faces

Honeybees can distinguish between human faces after brief training, revealing surprising cognitive abilities in these tiny insects and challenging assumptions about brain complexity.

Honeybees, with their tiny brains, can surprisingly recognize human faces. In a 2005 experiment, bees learned to identify specific faces from photos, achieving 80% accuracy after just 30 minutes of training. They associated visual patterns with sugar rewards, much like finding flowers in nature.

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