Honeybees Know What 3 Means (and 2 and 4), Researchers Find

One honeybee, ah ah ah... (Credit: yod67/Shutterstock)Humans, monkeys, pigeons, fish and honeybees can all grasp the concept of a greater than or less than sign and choose between bigger or smaller quantities. Now, new research from a team led by Martin Giurfa at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France is the first to show that honeybees, like other vertebrates, can also recognize a specific value, not just a relative value. That means they know the number 3, instead of simply recogniz