Honey Bees Can Zero in on the Advanced Concept of Zero (image)
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示意图显示，蜂脑如何通过一段时间而学会在数字组合中正确挑出较小数字，并接着在它们面对“零”数字组分 vs 较高数字组分时，蜜蜂如何理解“零”处于数字序列中的低端。 This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 8, 2018, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.R. Howard at RMIT University in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees."
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Composite image by Scarlett Howard, Jair Garcia and Adrian Dyer
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