{"id":4254,"date":"2018-10-18T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2018-10-18T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:36:50","slug":"do-bees-have-thoughts-asking-for-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/18\/do-bees-have-thoughts-asking-for-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Do bees have thoughts? Asking for a friend."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4245\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101818-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4245\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101818-6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Do bees have thoughts? Asking for a friend.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101818-6-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101818-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101818-6-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101818-6.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do bees have thoughts? Asking for a friend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It depends on how you define &#8220;thought&#8221;. Bees have demonstrated behavior that goes beyond instinct. They can solve experimental problems never encountered in nature. They make decisions based on an effort\/reward calculation. They communicate what they learn to each other. But has a bee ever wondered whether to be or not to be? That is a very good question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It depends on how you define &#8220;thought&#8221;. Bees have demonstrated behavior that goes beyond instinct. They can solve experimental problems never encountered in nature. They make decisions based on an effort\/reward calculation. They communicate what they learn to each other. But has a bee ever wondered whether to be or not to be? That is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/18\/do-bees-have-thoughts-asking-for-a-friend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do bees have thoughts? Asking for a friend.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4264,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}