Critter Geek

We recently added bees to our menagerie (ongoing photos here). Which means we’re making sugar syrup for two kinds of critters now, so I made this handy cheat sheet to hang in the kitchen.

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As reported by the BBC, Baby chicks do basic arithmetic:
Scientists from the universities of Padova and Trento demonstrated chicks’ ability to add and subtract objects as they were moved behind two screens.
Lucia Regolin, an author of the study said the animals “performed basic arithmetic” to work out which screen concealed the larger group of objects.
The [...]