Honeybees order numbers from left to right, a study claims
The finding suggests that mental number lines are innate, not learned. But the idea has critics
![A honeybee on a white background with three black squares around it.](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/101722_di_bee-number-line_Feat_REV.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
This honeybee is being trained to recognize the concept of the number three by drinking sugar water from a micropipette placed in the middle of a panel with three black squares.
Martin Giurfa