Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees, too, can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much ...

Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Elizabeth Jayne White, Jair Garcia, and Scarlett Howard do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...

A new experiment in which bees were trained to associate symbols with numbers suggests we can communicate with insects in ways not thought possible. An Australian-French collaboration is claiming to ...