Use of social information and cultural transmission in bumblebees: an approach using robotic flower arrays KU Leuven
Social learning and copying others underlie in large part the cumulative cultural evolution and technological progress that is unique to our species. Over the last decades, however, examples of social learning and even long-lasting cultural traditions have been discovered throughout the animal kingdom, not just in vertebrates but even in insects. Bumblebees have emerged as a particularly attractive model system in this field, having been ...