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The mind of a bee

by Lars Chittka (writer), Jane Bulleyment (translation), Cédric Alaux (preface)
may 2025
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Behind the well-known image of the beehive, which highlights the incredible capabilities of bees as an organized society hides a little-known reality, each bee is a unique individual.
Lars Chittka, an internationally renowned researcher, has devoted his life to the study of honey bees and bumblebees. He invites us to discover  their astonishing cognitive skills and distinct personalities by immersing us in a bee's brain, a tiny organ but incredibly sophisticated. These insects are capable of recognizing flowers and human faces, use numbers and simple tools. Bees feel emotions and learn through observation. Their instinctive behavior and their evolution as foragers, travelling far from their hive, have strengthened their spatial memory, mapping skills and ability to anticipate.
The author unveils an unsuspected world, where bees seem to be endowed with a form of consciousness. He challenges our knowledge of the intellectual capacities of non-vertebrate animals, addressing the ethical dilemma in the laboratory. The crucial role they play as pollinators makes them sentinels of the environment. A captivating dive into the mind of one of the most essential and most mysterious insects on our planet.

Table of contents

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

CHAPTER 2 Seeing in Strange Colors

CHAPTER 3 The Alien Sensory World of Bees

CHAPTER 4 “It’s Just Instinct”—or Is It?

CHAPTER 5 The Roots of Bee Intelligence and Communication

CHAPTER 6 Learning about Space

CHAPTER 7 Learning about Flowers

CHAPTER 8 From Social Learning to “Swarm Intelligence “

CHAPTER 9 The Brains behind It All

CHAPTER 10 Personality Differences between Bees

CHAPTER 11 Do Bees Have Consciousness?

CHAPTER 12 Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes and Bibliography

Illustration Credits 

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Features

Language(s): French

Publisher: Éditions Quae

Edition: 1st edition

Published: 20 may 2025

Reference Book: 03002

Reference eBook [PDF]: 03002NUM

EAN13 Book: 9782759240890

EAN13 eBook [PDF]: 9782759240906

Interior: Colour

Format (in mm) Book: 160 x 240

Pages count Book: 240

Pages count eBook [PDF]: 240

Weight (in grammes): 390

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Size: 26.2 MB (PDF)

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