What a Bee Knows - Stephen Buchmann - 2023
Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees
By: Stephen Buchmann
Narrated by: Tristan Morris
Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-28-23
Categories: Science & Engineering, Animals, Biology
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She may be using her sensitive olfactory organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions relayed by a hive-mate. She may even be tracking electrostatic traces left on flowers by other bees. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees' mysterious paths and experience their alien world.
Although their brains are incredibly small—just one million neurons compared to humans' one hundred billion—bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee's way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. We travel into the field and to the laboratories of noted bee biologists who have spent their careers digging into the questions most of us never thought to ask (for example: Do bees dream? And if so, why?). With each discovery, Buchmann's insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder is infectious.
©2023 Stephen L. Buchmann (P)2023 Tantor
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