{"id":89262,"date":"2019-04-05T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/can-bees-do-maths-yes-new-research-shows-they-can-add-and-subtract"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T22:02:25","slug":"can-bees-do-maths-yes-new-research-shows-they-can-add-and-subtract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/can-bees-do-maths-yes-new-research-shows-they-can-add-and-subtract","title":{"rendered":"Can bees do maths? Yes \u2013 new research shows they can add and subtract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kCucnmIULGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows new research published today in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/5\/2\/eaav0961\"> Science Advances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having a brain containing less than one million neurons, the honeybee has recently shown it can manage complex problems \u2013 like <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/bees-join-an-elite-group-of-species-that-understands-the-concept-of-zero-as-a-number-97316\"> understanding the concept of zero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universal-sci.com\/headlines\/2019\/2\/17\/can-bees-do-maths-yes-new-research-shows-they-can-add-and-subtract\">https:\/\/www.universal-sci.com\/headlines\/2019\/2\/17\/can-bees-d...d-subtract<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows new research published today in the journal Science Advances. Despite having a brain containing less than one million neurons, the honeybee has recently shown it can manage complex problems \u2013 like understanding the concept of zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89262","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}