Bees can count to 4

[krissel]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081026/sc_nm/...ralia_science_1

[Gregg]

QUOTE

"The more we look at these creatures that have a brain the size of a sesame seed, the more astonished we are. They really have a lot of the capacities that we so-called higher human beings possess."

Perhaps more than I do. I can't figure out what "and so on" might mean:

QUOTE

"If you train them to the fourth stripe, they will look the fourth stripe and so on. But their ability to count seems to go only up to four. They can't count beyond four.

...seems to imply going to the next one. That would be five, which rhymes with hive :buzz:

[Xairbusdriver]

They can only count to four because they only have six legs! If they used one of those, they'd fall over!

[kbeartx]

After reading the linked article I was left w/ a strong sense that either the experiment or the article [or both] was somewhat vague and lacking in detail and that there might be other theories to explain the data...nothing specific I could point to, but it just didn't seem particularly conclusive.

KB

PS - I was all set to post this in their 'Talkback', but didn't see anything of that sort