In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary #University of London observed bumblebees. 🐝

Given small wooden balls ⭕, the bees pushed them around and rotated them. The behavior had no obvious connection to mating or survival, nor was it rewarded by the scientists. It was, apparently, just for fun. 🐞 ⚽

New York #Declaration on Animal #Consciousness:

“I hope the declaration [draws] greater attention to the issues of nonhuman consciousness, and to the ethical challenges that accompany the possibility of conscious experiences far beyond the human,” wrote Seth, a neuroscientist at the #University of #Sussex.