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The difficulty is often to differentiate between real intelligent acting on the one hand and intelligent looking but inherent and instinctive behavior on the other hand ...

When it comes to hexagonal shapes, do you know about this study that demonstrated how the bees actually make a circle shape and then it transforms into a hexagon without bee involvement? Any thoughts on it?

Found your post fascinating, thank you for writing it.

Amazing ... I didn't know about this study, thanks for mentioning it!

Yes.. insects instinctive behavior especially ants and bees are very interesting. In term of their social life, much can be learned. While in other hand, viewed from the science side, it turn out many more interesting things. It was amazed to know that the bees can be trained. Thank you for sharing this knowledge :)