Bees comprehend zero. Bees have a language, even if it’s danced rather than spoken. Bees use tools! Yet these tiny souls happily and inadvertantly work with humans, pollenating our crops, and while providing honey, yet human science determined bees also have rich, inner lives as well. Who better to expound upon these apian miracles than Marc Bekoff and Lars Chittka illustrating how possibly bees think as well as a man but not like us. This raises a thorny question, “If Insects Feel Pain, Should They Be Protected in Research? According to Katerina Zimmer there’s a growing body of evidence that scientific ethics should be applied to intertebrates as well while raising uncomfortable questions as to whether they are conscious. Take, if you will, The Mysterious Inner Life Of The Octopus who is the poster child for nonhuman intelligence. Martha Henriques considers the miracles embodied by our cephalopod siblings, considering the philosophical questions surrounding going tentacle-in-tentacle with an especially challenging one, “Do they feel pain?” (CS)
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