I very much look forward to this event!

ESentsocamerica.bsky.socialJun 4, 2024 2:12pm

Lars Chittka, Ph.D. (@larschittka.bsky.social), of Queen Mary University of London has been selected to deliver the Founders' Memorial Lecture at #EntSoc24. Chittka will honor Charles Henry Turner, Ph.D., and his discoveries on insect sensory systems and intelligence. entsoc.org/news/press-r...

Looking forward to giving the Alexander Lecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Friday websites.umass.edu/ions/calenda...

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Photographer Ray Crundwell's impression of our work on false memories in bumblebees - the first demonstration of this phenomenon in any animal: Hunt, K. & Chittka, L. (2015). Merging of Long-Term Memories in an Insect. Current Biology, 25:741–745

Neues Buch jetzt ueberall im Handel!

Well no - that is a much simpler form of social learning.

“Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt through individual trial and error.” 🐋🌱 #evobio 🧪

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone - Nature

Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt...

Bees and chimpanzees learn from others what they cannot learn alone www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our new paper is out now in Nature, showing that bumblebees possess the cognitive capacity for some of the key ingredients of cumulative culture, previously though to be unique to humans www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We won the Pineapple Science Award! The prize is awarded by Zhejiang Science and Technology Museum Hangzhou, China and "is designed to honor research with great imagination and to arouse the public enthusiasm for science".