{"id":90444,"date":"2019-05-08T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/wasps-are-smarter-than-we-thought-new-study-shows"},"modified":"2019-05-08T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:22:34","slug":"wasps-are-smarter-than-we-thought-new-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/wasps-are-smarter-than-we-thought-new-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Wasps are smarter than we thought, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wasps-are-smarter-than-we-thought-new-study-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summer is approaching in the northern hemisphere, heralding the return of that great scourge of al fresco diners everywhere: the wasp.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurekalert.org%2Fpub_releases%2F2019-05%2Fuom-pwc050619.php&key=15785bf48552a1cdfab425661118986f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a new study<\/a> out of the University of Michigan reveals that the striped critters aren\u2019t just pesky \u2014 they\u2019re smart.<\/p>\n<p>The research found that wasps can use a form of logical reasoning to infer unknown relationships from known relationships, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2019\/05\/08\/us\/paper-wasps-logic-scli-intl-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is approaching in the northern hemisphere, heralding the return of that great scourge of al fresco diners everywhere: the wasp. Now, a new study out of the University of Michigan reveals that the striped critters aren\u2019t just pesky \u2014 they\u2019re smart. The research found that wasps can use a form of logical reasoning to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90444","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=90444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}