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black and white honey bee hovering near yellow flower in closeup photography

Bees Can Count – and Recognize Human Faces

Suhail Ahmed

Here’s a twist that still feels deliciously improbable: creatures with brains smaller than a grain of rice can keep track of numbers and even tell human faces apart. For years, we treated bees as tiny automatons, admirable for their waggle dances but limited to instinct. Then careful experiments began to flip that story on its ...