The smartest man in the animal world

Biologists from the Queen Mary School of Chemical and Biological Sciences at the University of London found that bees can calculate the best route between flowers.

This helps minimize the energy needed to collect nectar. With an extremely simple brain, they easily handle a complex problem that can confuse many people.

Bees locate the flowers and optimize the flight path.

"Unlike computers or mathematicians that can quickly solve a problem on the path by comparing the length of all possible paths, a bee can find a solution. similar to a brain containing 950,000 neurons, "said Dr. Mattieu Lihoreau, head of the study. It is a very small fraction of the number of human neurons (80-90 billion neurons).

Through experiments, there were 6 flowers, equivalent to 720 possible routes. Lihoreau and colleagues found that bees use navigation tools , including the position of the sun, memorabilia of landmarks, flight directions and estimates of the distance between flights to "calculate" the shortest path. If a new path is found shorter than the "shortest" path known, then they will abandon the old road to use the new route.