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Rare and unusual documentation: Two bees work together to open a bottle cap
This is definitely not something you see every day: two bees position themselves on the sides of a bottle and use their legs to push the cork upwards - and in a few moments they manage to remove the cork.
Scientists have previously discovered that bees have surprising abilities, but surfers who watched the video fear: this is the end of humanity
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Sunday, 30 May 2021, 00:02 Updated: 00:07
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While we all recognize the importance of bees in our food chain as important pollinators of wild plants and crops, it turns out that these smart insects have additional talents - including the use of tools.
A new video that went viral really quickly documented the rare and amazing moment in which two honey bees join forces and work together to open a bottle of panta.
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This documentation comes from Sao Paulo, Brazil and shows two bees settling on either side of the bottle and using their legs to push the cork upwards.
In a few moments the bees manage to remove the cork from the sweetened beverage bottle and it falls to the ground and they have access to the sugared liquid inside.
According to ViralHog, the video network that acquired the rights to the video, he was filmed by an employee who was on his lunch break and recounted: "I got the bottle from a customer but soon the bees took over."
The scientific site sciencealert noted that in our digital age, keep in mind that the video could be just the result of sophisticated video editing using CGI technology, or maybe the bees really worked together, but just dropped a lid on a bottle that was already loose.
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Web surfers were amazed at the abilities of the bees and expressed concern for the fate of humanity
"Humans had a nice time"
"In years to come, when the bees rule the world - they will see this video in their schools"
And even records of similar cases were found
Scientific studies have shed more light in the past on how bees work together and cooperate with each other. For example, in 2018, researchers at Harvard University revealed how a swarm of bees will stick together and move as one body when its nest is shaken.
Scientists have spent months shaking and shaking swarms of thousands of honey bees to understand how insects can work together to keep the swarm intact. They discovered that bees can sense the direction their neighbors are moving and follow their movements.
In addition, researchers were able to teach bees to roll a ball into the gate to receive a reward. To get it the insects had to copy movements from each other and learn from their mistakes - and they were able to do so with incredible ease.
"'Use of tools' in this way has so far been attributed only to humans, then to primates, marine mammals, and later also to birds," the researchers wrote in 2017, "We now recognize that many species have the ability to predict how a particular object can be used to achieve a goal. "
Why a sugary drink?
Because it makes them optimistic
Freshened water improves the mood of bees (Photo: ShutterStock, By Aiskyroger)
Bees' fondness for sweet things is well known, but in 2016 scientists from Queen Mary University in London found that drinking a small drop of sugar water allows insects to enter an emotional state similar to human optimism.
The Daily Mail reported that researchers placed food on a blue flower with a green flower next to it without food on it - to train the bees to link certain shades of flower to food. They then challenged them with a blue-green flower to test their response.
They found that bees that received a drop of candied water before being released took less time to land on the blue-green flower. The scientists said that this indicates that the sweetened water improves the mood of the bees.
Senior researcher Professor Lars Chitka said at the time: "The findings that bees exhibit not only surprising levels of intelligence but also emotion-like situations suggest that we need to respect their needs when testing them experimentally and we need to do more to preserve them."
Research partner Luigi Bakiadona said: 'It is known that sweet food can improve a negative mood in older people and reduce infant crying in response to adverse events.
Our results indicate that similar cognitive responses occur there in bees. "
In any case, we recommend that the next time you eat and drink outside - keep an eye on your drink and look for bees in the area.
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