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What a Bee Knows
- Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She may be using her sensitive olfactory organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions relayed by a hive-mate. She may even be tracking electrostatic traces left on flowers by other bees. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees' mysterious paths and experience their alien world.
Although their brains are incredibly small—just one million neurons compared to humans' one hundred billion—bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee's way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. We travel into the field and to the laboratories of noted bee biologists who have spent their careers digging into the questions most of us never thought to ask (for example: Do bees dream? And if so, why?). With each discovery, Buchmann's insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder is infectious.
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- Nigel Collier
- 23-05-23
Great book
Great book full of information about bees. Worth listening to with loads of facts backed up with research.
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- bellanonna
- 19-07-23
Struggling with narrator's voice
This is a very good listen, apart from the narrator's voice, which is very distracting. I have over 60 titles in my Audible Library and this is the worst drawl I have listened too. Finding it is not conducive to a good listen. Will persevere as am v interested in the subject but would not download another title with the same narrator.
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