A New Study Reveals Bees' Ability to Process Numbers

A study published in October in the "Proceedings" of the American Academy of Sciences indicated that recent studies conducted on newborns and other vertebrates, particularly primates, have shown an innate tendency for this mechanism to be from left to right. Bees demonstrate the ability to perceive quantities from left to right, from smallest to largest. Even before learning to count, humans possess the ability to mentally arrange increasing quantities by naturally moving from left to right. However, in cultures that use right-to-left writing, such as Arabic, this order is reversed.