Nature March 2024 PMID 38448580

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone.

Alice D Bridges, Amanda Royka, Tara Wilson, Charlotte Lockwood, Jasmin Richter, Mikko Juusola, Lars Chittka

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Bumblebees can learn complex behaviors through social interactions, even when they cannot innovate these behaviors on their own.
The study showed that naive bumblebees learned to open a two-step puzzle box by observing trained bees, without being directly rewarded for the first step, indicating socially learned behavior beyond individual innovation.
This research suggests that social learning in animals like bumblebees might allow for the transfer of complex behaviors that are difficult or impossible for individuals to develop independently, challenging the idea that such advanced social learning is unique to humans.]

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