Your bee's got personality! | University of Illinois
New research suggest personality differences between individual bees in a hive. The scientists looked for a pre-disposition to novelty seeking by looking at which bees took on scout jobs. They found certain bees 3.4 times more likely to take on these jobs and linked this behaviour to the same genes that regulate novelty seeking in vertabrates.
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