Pesquisadores da Universidade de Londres descobriram que abelhas são capazes de voar o caminho mais curto entre flores, mesmo que as flores sejam encontradas em ordens diferentes.

“Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London and Royal Holloway have discovered that bees learn to fly the shortest possible route between flowers even if they discover the flowers in a different order. This ‘Travelling Salesman Problem’ often takes supercomputers days to solve, but Bees are now the first animals proven to do it. Computer-controlled artificial flowers were used to track the bee’s path and found they quickly learned the shortest route. Since a bee’s brain is only the size of a pinhead, researchers are hoping to identify the neural circuitry required and use that understanding to construct their own systems that rival the computational power of existing machines.”

Fonte: http://robots.net