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Do honeybees have a sense of imagination?

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London, June 25 -- New research conducted by researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, has sparked a debate on whether the findings of the two decades old 'lake experiment' -- suggesting that honeybees have a sense of imagination -- were correct.

The 'lake experiment', conducted by Princeton University researchers Fred Dyer and James Gould in New Jersey, suggested that honeybees carry around mental maps of their environment, and use them to make judgments about whether a food source is likely to be where a fellow bee says it is.

The study has never been formally published in a peer-reviewed journal, but ...

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