Bees like to roll little wooden balls as a form of play, study finds

Enlarge / This bee seems to be having a grand old time rolling this colored wooden ball.Samadi Galpayage There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: Scientists captured bees rolling wooden balls, solely for fun, on video, providing additional evidence that bees might experience positive “feelings.”

Many animals are known to engage in play—usually large-brained mammals (like humans)

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