The first beekeeper I worked for, back in 1974, had over 2000 hives. One time he said "it's interesting about the dance language and all that, but knowing about it doesn't increase honey production." 

Just a minute ago, I read this:

“When I went to my first research conferences, people didn’t understand why I was studying the  minds  of  farm  animals,”  says  Christian Nawroth, a behavioral biologist at FBN. Why waste your time if it’s not going to improve milk  or  meat  production, he  recalls  them asking. “They didn’t see the point.”

Not much changed. eh?

Nawroth  hopes  the work  will  give  people  new  respect  for  animals that have been overlooked for so long. Getting inside their minds will expand our own, he says. “Different species play by different  rules.  We  have  to  see  the  world  not just how we see it, but how they do." 

SCIENCE 8 DECEMBER 2023 • VOL 382 ISSUE 6675 

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