Do bees have feelings? Study reveals the insects' 'inner life'

The update

New research found bumblebees showed "emotion-like behaviours" previously only seen in mammals

Why bees matters

This development in bees, feelings, study, reveals, insects matters because it alters the baseline assumptions that BBC and others have been working from.

What led here

What precedes do bees have feelings? study reveals the insects' 'inner life', according to BBC, is a sequence of decisions that narrowed the range of possible outcomes.

Where this fits in Signal Ledger

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The editorial angle

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of bees, feelings, study, reveals, insects: New research found bumblebees showed "emotion-like behaviours" previously only seen in mammals.