Bees can count with just 4 brain cells, says study
Bees can solve seemingly clever counting tasks with very small numbers of nerve cells in their brains, according to a study. The 'brain' could easily count small quantities of items when inspecting one item closely and then inspecting the next item closely and so on, which is the same way bees count. Inspection strategies used by animals "Our model shows that even though counting is generally thought to require high intelligence and large brains, it can be easily done with the smallest of nerve cell circuits connected in the right manner," said Vera Vasas from the university. Bees v/s humans They have only one million nerve cells in total, so they have precious little brainpower, and must implement very efficient computational algorithms to solve tasks.
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