As usual with scientific journalism, the media over hypes the more modest claims of the original article:
"We analyzed bee flight movements in an array of four artificial flowers maximizing interfloral distances. Starting from a single patch, we sequentially added three new patches so that if bees visited them in the order in which they originally encountered flowers, they would follow a long (suboptimal) route. Bees' tendency to visit patches in their discovery order decreased with experience. Instead, they optimized their flight distances by rearranging flower visitation sequences. This resulted in the development of a primary route (trapline) and two or three less frequently used secondary routes. Bees consistently used these routes after overnight breaks while occasionally exploring novel possibilities. We discuss how maintaining some level of route flexibility could allow traplining animals to cope with dynamic routing problems, analogous to the well-known traveling salesman problem." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20973670 On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Stephen P. King <stephe...@charter.net>wrote: > Any one up to explaining this: > > http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/**news/items/se/38864.html<http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/se/38864.html> > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > > http://webpages.charter.net/**stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html<http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to > everything-list@googlegroups.**com<everything-list@googlegroups.com> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscribe@ > **googlegroups.com <everything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/everything-list?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
