> Perhaps the most magnificent animal building structure is the honeybee wax comb—a double-sided sheet of tessellated, near-horizontal hexagonal cells.
The article had me vacillating between thoughts of do the bees intentionally build a hexagonal or does the shape emerge as a property of the environment (temperature) and the chemical characteristics of wax. We have other examples of hexagonal shapes that emerge like soap bubbles in a sink or when round hay bales are stacked.
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