{"id":149061,"date":"2022-10-28T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/bumble-bees-like-to-play-new-video-study-shows-them-moving-balls-for-fun"},"modified":"2022-10-28T22:23:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T03:23:31","slug":"bumble-bees-like-to-play-new-video-study-shows-them-moving-balls-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/bumble-bees-like-to-play-new-video-study-shows-them-moving-balls-for-fun","title":{"rendered":"Bumble bees like to \u2018play\u2019: new video study shows them moving balls for fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bumble bees like to &#039;play&#039;: new video study shows them moving balls for fun\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3eUGj21c22w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So even insects like to play and have fun.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bumble bees enjoy playing with balls, suggesting insect minds are far more sophisticated than previously thought, researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first study to prove that the insects like to play with toys, even when there is no apparent benefit to their actions.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Queen Mary University of London found that bees spontaneously chose to ignore food to roll wooden balls, with younger bees opting to roll more balls than older bees.<\/p>\n<p>It suggests that younger bees are more playful, just like human children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/bumble-bees-like-to-play-new-video-study-shows-them-moving-balls-for-fun\">Continue reading \u201cBumble bees like to \u2018play\u2019: new video study shows them moving balls for fun\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So even insects like to play and have fun. Bumble bees enjoy playing with balls, suggesting insect minds are far more sophisticated than previously thought, researchers have found. It is the first study to prove that the insects like to play with toys, even when there is no apparent benefit to their actions. Researchers at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}