Despite having brains smaller than a sesame seed, honeybees can learn and remember human faces.
Bees use 'configural processing'—piecing together eyes, nose, and mouth as a recognizable pattern, similar to how they identify flower shapes. In lab tests, bees trained with sugar water reliably picked out learned faces.
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Verified Answer: By combining facial features into a whole pattern
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Correct Answer: By combining facial features into a whole pattern
Bees process the spatial arrangement of eyes, nose, and mouth just like flower patterns.
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