True Facts: Bees That Play With Balls And Do Math!

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Dr Charles Abramson, Oklahoma State University
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Dr Joanna Brebner, CRCA, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, CNRS, France
Dr Hiruni Samadi Galpayage Dona, Università di Trento
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Patrick Sainton
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@zefrank 16 күн бұрын

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@bigbossimmotal 16 күн бұрын

What happened to Jerry? Is he on vacation? lol

@4362mont 16 күн бұрын

@@bigbossimmotal Apparently, Jerry got left behind.

@TheDeepening718 16 күн бұрын

Ya, but is it the bee that's smart? You first have to prove that the bee is responsible (response-able).

@HamsterFlex 16 күн бұрын

Please make a sister channel for kids

@Lovehandels 16 күн бұрын

omg bees love balls is my new jam!

@andrewhall9739 16 күн бұрын

It sounds like you could train 2 teams of bees to score goals in different colored nets and give them 1 ball to see a game of bee-soccer

@FortuitousWench 15 күн бұрын

could? i think Should may be the better word here. bee soccer may be a moral imperative

@anjafrohlich1170 15 күн бұрын

That's the stuff they should show in the sports channel

@thebenefactor6744 15 күн бұрын

Hümmel Hümmel!

@gaby300470 15 күн бұрын

You mean bee football. ⚽🐝

@cdbosh 14 күн бұрын

@@gaby300470 - clearly the name is "rug-bee"! 😂

@kennyp4670 16 күн бұрын

'damn bees and their metric system. think theyre sooo smart' -inch worms

@ekathe85 15 күн бұрын

"I've got four twenties and nineteen problems but a b*tch ain't one" - French poodles

@MossyMozart 14 күн бұрын

@kennyp4670 - .^_^.

@TheSeptemberRose 14 күн бұрын

😂

@MiCKi914 13 күн бұрын

Underrated comment

@Catachrest 12 күн бұрын

🏆

@colorbugoriginals4457 14 күн бұрын

"What do you do for a living?" "I train bees."

@eledatowle8767 14 күн бұрын

I am not pissing off that scientist.

@user-cl5yb3vj2l 14 күн бұрын

"Beads?" "BEES!"

@primesspct2 10 күн бұрын

its a sad state of affairs when I can barely train my dog, The trainer of the bees must be pretty special too! (and probably like ball's too)

@whannabi 2 күн бұрын

@@primesspct2 There's a reason educators exist. You gotta learn to teach even more when it's a different animal like a dog

@dwilson6769 Күн бұрын

Hank Pym be proud

@CosmicSphincter 14 күн бұрын

I like how everyone’s love of bees only gets more justified over time. They’re important to the environment, cute, and smart. Such lovely animals.

@protocetid 10 күн бұрын

Native bee species are the ones that are most in danger. People think the alarm is just about domesticated bees, but these add to the problems of regional bees.

@olgakim4848 7 күн бұрын

We need bees to pollinate many of the fruits and veggies we eat every day, including coffee and chocolate!

@circa134 6 күн бұрын

boooo european honey bee

@justinwatson1510 3 күн бұрын

More importantly, they love playing with balls and dancing in the dark. Queer icons.

@bugjams 3 күн бұрын

@@protocetid Came here to comment this, I'm glad this knowledge is becoming so common that it was the first reply. To add to what you've said; it's not just that domesticated bees _aren't_ in danger, they actually _pose a threat_ to native bee populations. Our honeybees are an invasive, domesticated species that we ship around the country throughout the year to keep them producing non-stop. Because they keep getting introduced to fields and forests where they aren't native, they out-compete with native bees and starve them of nectar/pollen. We've already lost 40 species of native bees so far due to this, probably more if we were to check again by this point. And if anyone thinks, "Who cares, the plants will just get pollinated by the honeybees then, right? No net loss?", this actually is _very_ bad. Assuming you don't care enough that the loss of a unique species is tragic to you, replacing native bees with honeybees is going to screw us over - and potentially end up starving millions of people. See, species diversity is _crucial_ in ecosystems for a number of reasons. For one, each species may have a slightly different role, or niche, to fill. Our honeybees may outcompete a native species, but then fail to have the proper routine or behavior that leads to successful pollination of a particular plant. The second - and most damning problem, however - is that having only a single species of bee will mean that, if a bee-killing disease comes along, and the honeybees are susceptible to it, it's over. Colony collapse disease is already a small, but poignant example of how bad it _could_ get. Whereas, if you had 100 bee species, the disease may catch a dozen or so, maybe even the majority of them - but some will be immune, so the ecosystem has time to recover. But... you really should just care about the extinction of native bees for the sake of life. 40 species are already gone for good, never coming back. It will take thousands, perhaps millions of years for species diversification to repair that gap. Many of these bee species were beautiful as well. If we have the option to _not_ wipe out a unique species for short-term profit, I think we should, y'know, go with that option?

@lu-cipher 16 күн бұрын

"They're learning, but they're not quite getting the full picture" is me at university

@thegamerfox96 16 күн бұрын

Same.

@Alizudo 16 күн бұрын

Wish I could go to university

@drukharimatter2962 16 күн бұрын

That’s people living life in general ☺️

@lu-cipher 16 күн бұрын

@@drukharimatter2962 too true. as long as we're learning I guess it's okay :)

@bg6b7bft 16 күн бұрын

So your grade is a B average?

@lcgiv4u 16 күн бұрын

Bees are so smart they don’t even know

@WSWC_ 16 күн бұрын

The only thing that differentiates humans from most animals in my opinion is the ability to "perceive" that we're dumb, that the unknown will always be more vast than anything else.

@W4iteFlame 16 күн бұрын

True

@Dalton_Boardman2000 16 күн бұрын

@@WSWC_That blew my mind. We're smart because on some level we know we'll never know everything. The thing is though we can't really look into the imagination of animals. I'm sure there's monkeys in jungles or apes in captivity that do think or ponder what lies beyond their habitat but their stronger natural instincts will tell them to stay put.

@kaidevaleria2531 16 күн бұрын

Once they start thinking they are smart it’s all downhill from there lol

@tomcollins5112 16 күн бұрын

They serve their purpose, and they do it well. But they can't comprehend the greater world or the universe. If you tried communicating concepts like the Pacific Ocean, or the moon, or the zodiac, they wouldn't understand you.

@captainjurgh8142 15 күн бұрын

Bees playing with the balls are by far the most unusual and adorable stuff i've ever seen

@shadowstep1375 9 күн бұрын

If there is anything this world has taught me is that the most unusual things in this world are when something beehaves the way we expect.

@noahhager1187 15 күн бұрын

So there's this video of 2 bees unscrewing a Fanta cap. That is just next level

@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn 8 күн бұрын

give em a couple thousand years and they are doing heists on our sugar refineries

@MM-sx7zs 16 күн бұрын

Bees having an understanding of the concept of zero is actually really cool

@castonyoung7514 15 күн бұрын

Couldn't they have just learned to go for more white space? He acts like black is inherently something and white is just blank, but I doubt a bee would see things that way. Furthermore, I heard people tried to teach (a) bear(s) to count, but bears would keep picking the box with the larger dots that take up more space rather than the one with the more dots (which was actually the rule), so I would assume that unless I am misremembering things (or that was just a really stupid bear and/or scientist), the bee would also just be learning to pick the square with more white space or blue space.

@gabrielcampbell376 14 күн бұрын

@@castonyoung7514 I would note that in the example provided, they did have the shapes be different sizes. So the bees had to specifically identify individual patches.

@fltof2 14 күн бұрын

If they understand 0 and 1, perhaps you can teach them binary.

@gwennorthcutt421 14 күн бұрын

@@fltof2 beenary

@fltof2 13 күн бұрын

@@gwennorthcutt421 ROTFLMAO!

@russellwhitmyer6764 16 күн бұрын

The bee brain is small but has excellent Firmware.

@PowerEd8 16 күн бұрын

Sounds like some sht TierZoo and Casual geographic would say Love all 3 of em 😁

@noteworthyinsignificance 16 күн бұрын

Dang. You win.

@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV 16 күн бұрын

@@PowerEd8 You've got great taste.

@erwinrogoza614 16 күн бұрын

As if the firmware barely has any bug!.. Maybe only one!

@TragoudistrosMPH 16 күн бұрын

It's true... Invertebrates lack myelin, so they have larger neurons to carry electrical current. It would be great followup to see if the larger neurons have better networking capabilities or not 🤔

@Jikkuryuu 15 күн бұрын

As a bit of a communication nerd, I got real excited about how bees perceive/express distance. They measure distance by how much change they see in the ground. They share distance by wiggling their butt for a period of time. That's the same medium! The same units! They're directly stimulating the same sense they use to measure in the first place. That's, well not _clever_ since they aren't thinking about it, but it's efficient!

@georgehodgson695 11 күн бұрын

You just blew my mind. Again. for like the 10th time in the last 15 minutes. Life is absolutely wild

@primesspct2 10 күн бұрын

Is that anything like when I go out and on a dance floor, but I don't know the dance and just shake my butt? No?? nothing like that?! Not at all?

@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn 8 күн бұрын

I would argue that most humans get their feeling of distance in a similar way but they can also factor in time

@edwardlulofs444 6 күн бұрын

From a mathematical perspective, there are no spheres nor circles in nature. But flowers often are circular in shape. I wonder if the bee is mistaking the ball for a flower. When a bee lands on a flower, it crawls around to gather pollen and nectar. Then the bee just tries to crawl around the ball thinking that it’s a flower and inadvertently causing it to roll…. Just my weird mind thinking….

@Jikkuryuu 6 күн бұрын

@@edwardlulofs444 Following that logic, perhaps that behavior helps bees find the entrance to less-open flowers.

@kildemahll8908 15 күн бұрын

My brother helps run a bee research lab at Princeton, and I recommended that he should collaborate with you about a bee vid a couple years ago. I just sent him this link to rub it in his face that he missed his chance do work with the great Ze Frank. My failure as a nobody compared to him is so much sweeter now.

@spacecruisers 5 күн бұрын

Legendary comment 😂

@DanGamingFan2846 16 күн бұрын

I just find it so cute and hilarious that bees will stop whatever they're doing to play with balls. And it's honestly impressive what smart, fast learners they are for an insect.

@watershipup7101 16 күн бұрын

For a creature with less than a million neurons, they've achieved quite a lot.

@waterbullstudios9195 16 күн бұрын

It's adorable watching them go and rolle around.

@thusnameddigital9397 16 күн бұрын

Pretty good for an insect.

@elizaalmabuena 16 күн бұрын

work, work, work, work, wo..........BALL!!!!!!

@onewayturtles 16 күн бұрын

They're like tiny puppies that fly and sting!

@nat2057 16 күн бұрын

"A to B to bee to bee-"

@3nertia 16 күн бұрын

ZeFrank's little "heheh" after delivering that line really killed me xD

@RaiNAgara 16 күн бұрын

5:11 for the timestamp.

@TheKingOfTheHaters 16 күн бұрын

This joke really got me

@fisionit9150 16 күн бұрын

To bee or not to bee? That is a question...

@eloerch7 16 күн бұрын

When its so good u laugh at your own joke.

@GordonAu 14 күн бұрын

And the waggle dance also accounts for the *movement of the sun*, with its angle shifting appropriately as time passes. Freakin' amazing. Great episode!

@thedarkknight1971 15 күн бұрын

03:44 - "He's gone for a vape..." 👌🤣🤣🤣 😎🇬🇧

@caitlinhanks9670 9 күн бұрын

I was taking a pull off my mod when he said that....

@dieselexhausted Күн бұрын

@@caitlinhanks9670 as was I 😂 I stopped mid drag - I'm still glowing from last night's acid and it got too meta for a second

@Warp9pnt9 16 күн бұрын

Not only do I have to worry about bees being attracted to my food and drink at a BBQ, now I have to cover my balls too?!

@MultiSuperPotato 16 күн бұрын

You don't have to 😏

@Zheeraffa1 16 күн бұрын

Somebody wants to play with your balls just because they like it, and you complain? smh

@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana 16 күн бұрын

Clothes do that automatically, using the power of the normal reaction force and deliberately engineered shapes.

@someenthusiast 16 күн бұрын

only if your balls are bee sized

@Zaxares 16 күн бұрын

Just stop putting that sugar juice on your balls and you should be fine. ;P

@vlionheart 16 күн бұрын

Imagine being kidnapped by giants just so they can force you to attend classes on puzzle solving

@OpDDay2001 15 күн бұрын

That's just Portal 1 and 2, kind of.

@EinSophistry 15 күн бұрын

At least you'd get to play with balls sometimes.

@mrmeekcreices 15 күн бұрын

The bees probably think the humans testing them are stupid cause they havent figured out how smart bees are yet.

@danielgreenwood793 14 күн бұрын

That's just a description of regular students and bus drivers

@scruffy-thejanitor 14 күн бұрын

So elementary school?

@westminsterabbey.6916 6 күн бұрын

“It flew like three feet and found a shoe” took me out 🤣

@quinnbennettpelkey 14 күн бұрын

I really like that the shoutouts and citations at the end tell you what each person contributed instead of just a "Special thanks to [insert long list of names here]". Super helpful, makes it super easy for me to look at who contributed what and go check out their stuff!

@appletree3541 16 күн бұрын

I love how there are people that get paid to put bees in a box and make them watch you push a tiny ball with a ear cleaner that is painted to look like a bee

@henrieketebrake4635 16 күн бұрын

As an aspiring behavioral ecologist, you'd be surprised what kind of shenanigans you can get paid for.

@queenebil 15 күн бұрын

It is not as easy as it looks 8)

@Fralexion 15 күн бұрын

We still haven't figured out which humans are just alien ear cleaners on sticks, though

@macaronsncheese9835 15 күн бұрын

@@henrieketebrake4635 one of my favorites is some guys who were researching dinosaur locomotion. The good news is you can easily access living theropods to watch walk around. The bad news is they're all missing one thing- the bigger, heftier tail of nonavian dinos, which is going to affect balance. How does one deal with this? Turns out the answer is "strap a plunger to a chicken's butt"

@HuckleberryHim 15 күн бұрын

I think this kind of research is cutting-edge and helps us understand what intelligence, consciousness, etc are really about. We have a million other brained species to study right on this planet, and understanding the diversity of their cognition is essential to understanding the origins and mechanisms of cognition in general

@Red-mg4ro 16 күн бұрын

If bees know ones and zeros, that means we're one step closer to bee powered computers. BPUs.

@crownclowncreations 16 күн бұрын

This is such an underrated comment

@Tabbyclaw 16 күн бұрын

Programmed in beenary.

@brandyrose9997 15 күн бұрын

HÀAAA

@utility63 15 күн бұрын

Ones and zeroes? So, beenary then?

@andykuen1813 15 күн бұрын

But can it run doom?

@jakevanderveen9213 14 күн бұрын

The second you mentioned the little dance Bees do to convey directions, you unlocked a memory from my childhood of me learning that exact fact through watching The Magic School Bus.

@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn 8 күн бұрын

at school we only learned that they do their dance to communicate but not how exactly

@notrequired602 15 күн бұрын

That jazz track about bees loving balls in the end is actually pretty damn catchy; When do we expect a full version?

@SuperLisa 10 күн бұрын

And more importantly - who's the artist?? I want more!

@bewilderbeestie 4 күн бұрын

@@SuperLisa It's ZeFrank. He makes all his own music (except for the classical background tracks).

@zakncooper 16 күн бұрын

I've helped several bees at my house. Some times they get tired from the wind or cold. I've picked them up and given them honey and water while they recover in my hand. Now, sometimes, they just show up looking for me to give them honey or water. If I'm not there, my wife will tell them I'm not home, and they fly away. I love that in some hive I'm part of a bee dance😂

@OceanSwimmer 16 күн бұрын

@zacncooper, That sound is my heart melting. Especially because your wife talks to the bees -- and they understand. ❤️🌷🌷❤️ 🫂 to both of you.

@Tabbyclaw 16 күн бұрын

The bees understand that sometimes your location produces flowering humans and sometimes it produces non-flowering humans.

@Callimo 16 күн бұрын

Ope, those bees might still come around when you die, so best to have someone tell them that you don't live there anymore :O (No need to tell em you're dead, that'll traumatize the bees!)

@pacthepac8894 15 күн бұрын

@@Callimo You joke, but there actually is an old tradition similar to that called telling the bees, where if a beekeeper has passed, somebody will go to the hive and inform them of the event. They will also sometimes drape the hive in mourning cloth and give them a small serving of the food and drinks served at the funeral. In some regions this extends to telling the bees about other major events in the beekeeper's life, such as marriage and birth. If the bees aren't told, it's said that the hive or keeper's household will face calamity.

@icahopilm898 15 күн бұрын

@@pacthepac8894 This has me in tears 😭😭So sentimental but feels so ludicrous. Precious lol

@Tudsamfa 16 күн бұрын

So, imagine a low-tech alternative universe where our computers run on bees - all computers do is a bunch of low scale math after all, just a lot of it. You fill a tube with sugar water, put a strip of blue and yellow rectangles in a hole and wait 5 minutes and voila- your taxes are done. Of course, just like ours these computers aren't perfect: there are a lot of bugs in the code.

@tarico4436 16 күн бұрын

You wait five minutes and--voila!--your taxes are done.

@FrikInCasualMode 16 күн бұрын

Terry Pratchett did this already, but with ants. His ant-powered computer even had a sticker on it - "Anthill Inside". 😎

@strawberrys0da714 16 күн бұрын

Does this mean bees can run Doom? Also, supposedly they did something like this with crabs.

@vincenzoditrolio6985 16 күн бұрын

@@strawberrys0da714they never ran doom on crabs just proved that it’s theoretically possible and then did the math to say how many crabs you need

@jcdisci 16 күн бұрын

Yellow/blue = +/-. Sounds like binary to me.

@mumpas-1043 15 күн бұрын

0:19 IT’S ME, BOY, I’M THE BEE-S5! SPEAKING TO YOU INSIDE YOUR BRAIN

@spidey475 11 күн бұрын

The fact that they do those dances in the dark never occurred to me. That's one of those "duh" moments that kinda blew my mind.

@Cherrymilktea2003 16 күн бұрын

"The scientists didn't have the balls to go to art school,"🤣

@rumpelstilzz 16 күн бұрын

Not that hard to get into art school if you know, the Vienna Academy of High Arts has vowed to never again turn a student applicant down ahahaha

@Vunderbread 16 күн бұрын

@@rumpelstilzz Europa - The Last Battle. Hard to find, but it's quite shocking how much true history has been covered up, and why. In fact, the very reason the documentary is so hard to find is indicative that we are still living under a hidden tyranny.

@Double512 16 күн бұрын

they used up all their balls teaching bees how to play minigolf

@Meezer 16 күн бұрын

True fact, we didn't.

@kcslc6723 16 күн бұрын

Honestly, that was me. I wanted to do art in grade school but ended up in STEM because I was pessimistic about the viability of an art career.

@pavelmedbery3055 16 күн бұрын

"Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies why flowers are better than shit." -Fuckin Socrates maybe.

@englishsteve1465 14 күн бұрын

So Crates, he da man !

@milchesarreal6964 12 күн бұрын

Profound. 😔👌✨

@thebestusername5852 12 күн бұрын

I am just really happy Zefrank came back from his multi-year hiatus. There were quite a few times when I was cleaning up my subscriptions and I ALMOST unsubscribed. But I was loyal and I'm so glad!

@lisanidog8178 13 күн бұрын

Wow! Never knew you could train bees. I’m allergic to honey bees, but still love watching them. Every spring a bumblebee always comes, hovers in front of me like a hello and then next year a bumblebee comes. Don’t know if it’s the same. But they all know that every year my mint flowers and they can do what bees do. So maybe the bumblebees that come and hover in front of me is their form of thanks. It’s been happening for 21 years but only with the bumblebees. The honey bees just do their flower thing. No hovering in front of me looking at me. Now I had a clan of wasps taking up residents in my front hedge bush. But only the left one. They sent two to attack me when I had to trim it. Then they learned they weren’t chased out so I can clip when they’re around and they wait until I’m gone and I’m not stung. They can be trained, conditioned, whatever. It’s just amazing that they have that capacity. And they let me watch them do their things with my mint flowers. I bet this May I’ll have a bumblebee visitor hovering in front of me as a greeting before flying away.

@alphabravo8703 11 күн бұрын

I've noticed hummingbirds will hover in my face when the feeder needs refilled.

@lisanidog8178 11 күн бұрын

@@alphabravo8703 Neat! It’s like they’re saying hurry up we need a refill bartender!

@dianekokko6254 8 күн бұрын

I always say hello to my bees when they hover around. I'll stop walking if they seem particularly invested. Gotta love the bees.

@lisanidog8178 8 күн бұрын

@@dianekokko6254 I do the same.

@GippyHappy 16 күн бұрын

My life has been vastly improved by the knowledge that Bee Golf exists.

@GippyHappy 16 күн бұрын

Hold on day ruined by the idea that a bee might have been ostracized by the colony for accidentally giving bad directions cause some jerk scientist moved all the landmarks around

@user-cl5yb3vj2l 14 күн бұрын

And is a lot more interesting to watch than human golf! 😆

@wolfform 16 күн бұрын

"Bees can do math! And you only thought you knew about their spelling! (kill me...) It's okay, Ze, we're all allowed to have a punny day!

@Linda-qp9kp 16 күн бұрын

👍🏻🤣

@a.N..... 16 күн бұрын

the little kill me quip was glorious

@thetapperhatz_laboratories2574 4 күн бұрын

Aww, Bees. They don’t even know their getting farted out by Badgers.

@adriansam1991 14 күн бұрын

"we only knew about their spelling" such a geniusly underrated line.

@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn 8 күн бұрын

i was waiting for a line like that tbh

@exavian6 16 күн бұрын

Noted: Bees love balls.

@doktormcnasty 16 күн бұрын

My next girlfriend is going to be a bee.

@breloommaster12 16 күн бұрын

@@doktormcnasty the next bee movie

@wormspeaker 16 күн бұрын

I knew we had something in common.

@Lovehandels 16 күн бұрын

The song at the end goes hard and i want a full song out of it! "No no no, Bees! Love! Balls!"

@dr.kraemer 16 күн бұрын

Key lesson here.

@Based_Brett_Crypto 15 күн бұрын

fun fact! i have bees in my garden

@kevinlovett8477 15 күн бұрын

i literally just watched zefrank's video about bees then came here, had to check several times which tabs were open

@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 15 күн бұрын

💸🤖

@ddkapps 15 күн бұрын

What about balls?

@overhauledunderpaid6469 15 күн бұрын

Ew crypto excuse me ma'am this channel is for people who want to get smarter go pedal your crap somewhere else.

@JoshuaSantell 15 күн бұрын

Yeah Julia, if you got bees, you gotta have balls. Wouldn't make sense otherwise.😮 Hah

@markmasaki1480 15 күн бұрын

I had no idea bees love balls. They are true Bee-ballers.

@michaelbuckers 2 күн бұрын

Virtually all animals like to play. It's just in the wild there isn't much to play with.

@insertnamehere8723 15 күн бұрын

Literally, the definition of a specific set of skills.

@nhmooytis7058 13 күн бұрын

Liam Beesom.

@insertnamehere8723 13 күн бұрын

@@nhmooytis7058 I love this comment 😭💀

@nhmooytis7058 13 күн бұрын

@@insertnamehere8723 😏

@raphaelgarcia9576 16 күн бұрын

I studied entomology for 5 years and I had no idea bees were so cognitively flexible. Must be those muscular calves.

@rasmusn.e.m1064 16 күн бұрын

*Cowgnitively* flexible then?

@hamsterama 15 күн бұрын

@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Not sure if English is your native language, but calves are the muscles in the back of the lower legs. Has nothing to do with cows.

@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst 15 күн бұрын

@@hamsterama Baby cows are called calves.

@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst 15 күн бұрын

Hello Entomology person. I have a question. Can insects get stronger from exercise? If they lift, will they be bigger after their next molt?

@rasmusn.e.m1064 15 күн бұрын

@@hamsterama It isn't, and yet I performed a pun I hadn't heard before. hooray.

@DawnstealerGaming 16 күн бұрын

I like the other bees tasting the legwarmers of the dancing bee and saying "Yeah...yeah, that's some good shit"

@kingcosworth2643 16 күн бұрын

"I saw him in compulsive tones, I said I'll have one of those"

@Tekdruid 15 күн бұрын

Isn't that the purpose of legwarmers?

@unrealed 14 күн бұрын

We're gonna need an extremely extended version of "Bees Love Balls", btw

@faycelmettoadine7335 15 күн бұрын

10:56 bees love balllls 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

@greggorylovecraft 16 күн бұрын

That short "Kill me" after the spelling bee joke killed me. Great job as always Ze Frank.

@sc8307 13 күн бұрын

That joke was a slow burn.

@The_Hagseed 16 күн бұрын

The spelling bee joke was subtle, but gold.

@SiiriCressey 16 күн бұрын

Gold. Golden. Like honey.

@a.chipperfield7925 16 күн бұрын

I came to the comments just to like one about that quip. Too good.

@maehvna 15 күн бұрын

The quiet “kill me” at the end is really what got me 😂

@Heroo01 14 күн бұрын

it wasn't very subtle lmao

@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn 8 күн бұрын

it was to be expected.

@theelephantintheroom69 3 күн бұрын

This is unironically the kinda shit I wanna see scientists spending their time on

@rogerlafaille9938 2 күн бұрын

The metric system even adopted by the bees shows how superior it is.

@metalmamasue3680 Күн бұрын

Don't tell the inchworms that 🤭

@Aura-Of-Syrinx 15 күн бұрын

okay this was wild, but out of all of this the fact they understand the concept of zero is honestly the most mindblowing fact o.o

@icallmysugarcandy 16 күн бұрын

A couple weeks ago I picked up a very sluggish bumble, brought it inside, put it in an open container with some pretty flowers, gave it some sugar water and put it in the sun to warm up and get his mojo back. He strengthened up and flew away eventually but as he did he gave me this look. Like he was thankful but kind of bummed. I didn’t realize what it was until now. I didn’t give him any balls to play with. I will never make that mistake again. There’s nothing worse than a bummed bumble. 😢

@scarymeunster9095 14 күн бұрын

You turned him into a bummedblebee, you monster

@snowjae9380 14 күн бұрын

That’s so cute!!!

@JoseyWeik 6 күн бұрын

Zefrank, you are one of my favorite creators. You have done so much to educate and entertain! Much love.

@gordonfurness6253 13 күн бұрын

It's so cool, an insect that is all about serving the queen, gathering nectar, and making honey can actually enjoy play time. It's so fascinating to learn that nature isn't always straight-up business.

@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn 8 күн бұрын

somewhere a green or gray alien dude probably wrote the same thing on alientube after watching you type that comment

@mariosbrother6845 16 күн бұрын

"it flew like 3 feet and found a shoe" made me laugh out loud harder than it probably should've

@MarcosElMalo2 16 күн бұрын

It’s the bee with 10 subscribers.

@druid_zephyrus 16 күн бұрын

Everything was cool. Everything was great. Then you demonstrated the concept of zero and now I'm terrified

@dieselexhausted Күн бұрын

A tiny bee sloppily landed on me at work one day. It startled me at first (we have LOTS of flying things that *aren't* so friendly) but I didnt hurt it too badly and it ended up on my hand. It still seemed sluggish, and there weren't really any flowering plants around - and it was HOT out. I poured a few drops of water onto my hand and watched as it drank some of that, and some of the sweat from my palm. After a few minutes it started walking across my hand better, and soon enough it flew away just fine. It felt nice to think it "chose" me and the electrolytes my body put out to nourish itself and regain its strength.

@GingeRenee 12 күн бұрын

I found a bumble bee that was dying on my porch. I brought him in and put him in a safe box and fed him sugar water to try and save him. He would climb on my hand. So sweet. He unfortunately died but I was able to give him comfort and compassion during his last few days. We actually felt so sad when he died because in those few short days we became attached to him. I love bees. My mom is a bee keeper and I hope to start my first hive this summer. 😊

@RobinMarks1313 16 күн бұрын

I think the spelling bee is the smartest.

@chembleton 16 күн бұрын

Sewing bees are pretty clever the way they handle the needle and thread

@dennisokada9287 16 күн бұрын

@@chembleton😅

@BlisterBang 16 күн бұрын

I did nothing to deserve that...

@Chaos8282 16 күн бұрын

They've got nothing on the Carpenter Bee

@chembleton 16 күн бұрын

@@Chaos8282 I see your carpenter bee with his little wooden hut and raise you a masonry bee with his grand brick house

@Darklord1201FTW 10 күн бұрын

Good on you for not making BEEs small and BALLS big In the thumbnail, I know I couldn’t stop myself.

@teebee9903 14 күн бұрын

I'm allergic to bees so I learned a great deal about their behaviors to avoid being stung and to not have to kill their hives. I have not been stung since the 1980s. And yet I still learned something new (as usual) from Zefrank's video. One of the best teachers on the internet. I think I would have actually enjoyed school if he had been my teacher.

@atimidbirb 16 күн бұрын

Bees being taught to roll a ball into a goal for a little drop of sugar water is the most wholesome fucking experiment I have ever heard of and I LOVE IT

@AlexxForest 16 күн бұрын

I love how agresssively angry the "bees can count?!" bit sounds. Ze Frank at his finest.

@mattw7949 5 күн бұрын

Ze, you are an absolute treasure. If you are ever walking down the street, minding your own business and a strange, hairy, doughy old man ever hugs you, it's probably me.

@leifericson88 12 күн бұрын

Been watching this dude for years. Part Sterling Holloway, part Morgan Freeman, part Bill Nye. Pure genius.

@lucasmendoza7576 16 күн бұрын

I remember learning that people learn and retain information better when the lessons are entertaining and funny. So when some people say putting comedy or puns/jokes in a lecture is informal or distracting and will be deleterious to students' learning, just know it actually helps to make the lesson more flavorful and have greater impact, as opposed to it being bland and forgettable.

@WombatDave 15 күн бұрын

Taking AP psychology back in 2002, we learned this. People learn more and retain information better when they're having fun. And yet so many teachers and parents still can't figure out why kids know everything about Fortnite but can't retain the information they read in their dry, boring textbook.

@redwitch12 14 күн бұрын

Back in the 2000s, I was doing tech support for a major ISP. We were being trained on supporting a specific internet device. The class was threatening to be very dull, but then someone asked "Where did we get these devices?" and the instructor came right back with "Dave the purchasing guy says he got them from a dude that was selling them out of the trunk of a white Thunderbird" and suddenly we were all paying attention because that was HILARIOUS. Similarly, someone else asked "What do you think the odds are that users will access the help files for troubleshooting?" and the instructor replied "Are you asking if I believe in fairies?" It says something that I still remember THAT about 20 years later, doesn't it? :D (And yes, I COULD still troubleshoot the device in question if I had to...or if it still existed)

@linksbetweendrinks7032 14 күн бұрын

Why isn't Timmy paying attention in class? Does he have ADHD!? No, Timmy is human. Humans don't pay attention to boring things that they don't like.

@amonsatan5263 13 күн бұрын

I think the quality of the jokes matter a lot though. I had a Government teacher in High School who used tons of the worst imaginable puns, and I only remember how much I hated going to those classes because of the puns. Where as I had an English teacher who had really funny quips, and I remember quite a lot about his class.

@gankgoat8334 16 күн бұрын

Worked with bees for a summer job and I can tell you that bees play favorites. Over the course of about three months I got stung maybe 4 times while the other interns got stung 15 to 20 times a day.

@carloscaylan7497 15 күн бұрын

I've heard that honey bees associate dark / black hair with bears, so that could be one thing. Also depends on the time of year too. When I worked at an apiary, I could relax close to the hives with my veil off during my breaks and be fine early in the season. They got more defensive as the nectar flow started, and eventually they'd constantly bump me for daring to exist near them towards the end of the season

@MossyMozart 14 күн бұрын

@gankgoat8334 - Maybe you are just not all that sweet.

@dylanbailey8464 14 күн бұрын

@carloscaylan7497 from what my beekeeper friend tells me, they get cranky when the flowers start drying up and they have to work harder for food, kinda like people.

@sleepymarauder4178 14 күн бұрын

@@carloscaylan7497❤

@agingerbeard 14 күн бұрын

Good things communist revolutions always fail 😅@@dylanbailey8464

@thatjillgirl 10 күн бұрын

Bees were already my favorite insects because they make honey and do dances, but now that I know they can count and teach each other to solve puzzles, it's even better.

@ayzannah9885 7 күн бұрын

As a teacher, I feel like Ze Frank is the sort of level you might never achieve but should always strive towards. Also... I'm not entirely convinced that every nominally adult, competent human could figure out all of those shape-and-math-riddles.

@thatirishasian 15 күн бұрын

“It looks like they bought into the metric system. Bullshit.” 😂

@neskey 16 күн бұрын

i'm now convinced that bee scientists don't know what a flower is

@leopardcohen5182 15 күн бұрын

If only an individual person could live long enough to learn both what a bee is AND what a flower is😔

@ruthlesslistener 12 күн бұрын

more like funding isnt good enough to bother lol

@georgehodgson695 11 күн бұрын

I'm studying Horticulture at the moment and your comment made me laugh. I didn't even think of that 😂

@jasenanderson8534 15 күн бұрын

They've always amazed me at their ability to convey information. Brilliant video

@erin303mezzo 20 сағат бұрын

“Tiny bee mic drop” omg I love this guy! Amazing! 😆❤️👌🥰

@thechickenwizard8172 16 күн бұрын

"But most of the rest of us-sorry, I mean them" Not sure if this is about getting drunk, or if zefrank just admitted to being a swarm of bees in a trenchcoat

@Viceroy_Sundercles_III 16 күн бұрын

Why not both?

@j.robertsergertson4513 16 күн бұрын

That poor bee ,flew three feet and found a shoe no wonder he wasn't happy dancing

@orko714 16 күн бұрын

Maybe there was a ball in the shoe?

@DissedRedEngie 16 күн бұрын

@@orko714 nah she would've been buzzing if there was a ball. (mention for op, all worker bees are female)

@daniellamcgee4251 16 күн бұрын

Bees like disco balls and bee bop.

@ZenFr0g 16 күн бұрын

"I found a half dead tulip. It's okay I guess"

@adamengelhart5159 15 күн бұрын

"So let me get this straight. You found a shoe." "Yes." "You're aware that we're bees, right?" "Yes." "And that means that we collect nectar and pollen from flowers, right?" "Yes." "So why are you telling us about a shoe? Is there a flower in the shoe or something?" "Well, no, but there's some drips from ice cream on one of the laces--" "Yeah, you can just keep that one to yourself."

@chrisparker7797 13 күн бұрын

My doctorate was literally making a bunch of robots use the bee new nest selection strategy to make collective decisions with no one in charge. This video brought back a lot of good memories 😊

@RevengeRaptorREAL Күн бұрын

i didnt think it was possible for me to love bees more

@LendriMujina 16 күн бұрын

1:42 Getting so engrossed in the solution that you completely forget what problem you were trying to solve in the first place... that's something I can really relate to.

@TonusStoneshield 15 күн бұрын

The one out of a hundred or so bees that can figure it out is a strong implication that there are in fact bee geniuses. This is mindblowing to me.

@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn 8 күн бұрын

just like in real life

@karentarin3235 2 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for this video. I once saved (as I prayed not to be stung, hurting me and killing them) several honey bees from a swimming pool (as I prayed not to be stung, hurting me and killing them) and wondered why so many were in there. I knew bees were smart and wondered why no one got the memo about The pool being a danger. (also why the property owner wasn't saving her own damn bees)

@brandonnguyen7181 15 күн бұрын

8:00 "So what now? Bees can count?" Why did that sound so appalled 😂

@evalyer 16 күн бұрын

"From A to B to Bee to Bee" underrated dad joke.

@Thetracker69 16 күн бұрын

This 11 minute video felt like 2 minutes. Man I never thought I'd bee so enraptured about bees.

@elitefoxes 11 күн бұрын

This is not only awesome news of how smart bees are, but i think its even cooler that we deciphered their dance!

@stephenskinner4857 14 күн бұрын

I have great LOVE for bees. After graduating from College and wanting to be in the wide open spaces, I went to visit a friend who was a beekeeper in South Dakota. He taught me much about bees, in the a few months I worked with him. I respect these creatures. They are more than devoted than us to a good cause, part of the WHOLE of this planet.

@fugithegreat 16 күн бұрын

About 6 months ago, one black wasp came and scouted out my kitchen then flew away. Now, for the past 6 months I keep getting a bunch of black wasps that fly right to the same corner of my kitchen, even though I'm pretty sure I kill most of them. So that means that this corner is part of their cultural knowledge or something. I don't know how long those wasps live for, but I like to imagine an old lady wasp scout just telling everyone she knows all about how awesome my kitchen is.

@erinmac4750 15 күн бұрын

I could be wrong, but those black wasps sound like some that I had decide to nest the door of my 80's Mercedes when I hadn't taken it out for a few days. Knowing nothing about them and fearing everything, we zapped them with spray. Then we found out they were harmless and good pollinators. Sorry guys......

@queenebil 15 күн бұрын

No don't kill them! Make an offering of something yummy outside so that they stop going to the kitchen.

@CESmith 15 күн бұрын

We have black wasps nesting behind our outdoor thermometer clock every summer. Usually there's around 6 of them each summer. Never bothered us and they're nice to see.

@DuchessofEarlGrey 15 күн бұрын

I remember reading the smell of mint is offputting for wasps. If there's a place you don't want them to nest in, dab some mint extract or oil around there. I did that once when they were trying to build a nest near my bat house.

@fugithegreat 15 күн бұрын

@@erinmac4750 yeah I have another little colony of harmless pollinators living under my drain pipe outside, and we get along just fine. I wouldn't be killing these particular wasps so ruthlessly if they were harmless (and also I don't need wasps flying in and out of my kitchen all day), especially since I have students coming in my house all day and we don't need that stress 😂

@neelcashyap7879 16 күн бұрын

Zoology was never so interesting until I listen to this guy...

@SiiriCressey 16 күн бұрын

Yeah! Humor can make things interesting. Too bad so much of formal western traditional education seems to ignore that.

@kR-qj7rw 16 күн бұрын

Nah it always was Humor is a great hook but really either you have it in you or you don't to be interested on x theme

@P34chy5c0n3 Күн бұрын

I love learning new fun facts and telling my family about them, been using your channel for that for 11 years now. I really love your content!

@diediedice 12 күн бұрын

For some reason I must have missed this video in my subscription box. Today, I found a bombus magnus (giant bumblebee) in front of our working shed just as I was about to step out of it. Made it climb a wood pellet, put it on a flowering bloom and watched it until it started to walk onto the stone path again. Put it back into a more secluded/hidden flower and it stayed there a while longer. They are awesome "little" creatures. I found it extra cute how fast a lot of pollen got stuck to its fuzzy body :))

@detectivemuffler8083 16 күн бұрын

“Of course they’ll use a couple hundred thousand neurons on the flowers.” Yeah, better use than my couple hundred thousand neurons

@AnAggressiveBean 16 күн бұрын

8 billion neurons infact

@Moomoomanly 16 күн бұрын

tbf, with how many neurons humans have we probably use a couple hundred thousand on flowers

@ReleasedHollow 16 күн бұрын

4 billion of my neurons are just dedicated to random trivia.

@The_Crucible714 16 күн бұрын

Bee brain; _Size isn’t everything!_ 🧠

@rapheAltoid77 16 күн бұрын

I work at a garden center. At least a couple hundred thousand of my neurons are dedicated to flowers this time of year. 😀

@h__r 16 күн бұрын

Can't imagine how you manage to come up with such hilarious and educational content so quickly. It's amazingly well made. Well done.

@The_Crucible714 16 күн бұрын

He’s a smart-azzed beeyutch.

@alysdexia 15 күн бұрын

⁠⁠⁠is not: Dr → Dr.; it, that → who; fast → swift[ly]; go and → go; nice < niais < nescius := not-skilled like he is → well; censors “crap”which is Latin for chaff and “ass” which is a beast; away from → froward; shouldn’t → ouhtn’t; less → lesser → fewer; will → shall →; try and (try _what?_ and) → try to.

@Vespertilio-Homo 15 күн бұрын

by sitting on top of really big people ...or something like that.

@enzoqueijao 15 күн бұрын

@@alysdexiaAre you having a stroke?

@alysdexia 15 күн бұрын

@@enzoqueijao learn how to read, wit/2.

@OW-py3yi 6 күн бұрын

Love this video! I learned before though that bees do the waggle dance primarily because they are indicating a food source to other workers, not always a location for a swarm.

@patriot1560 12 сағат бұрын

I've been a beekeeper for about 5 years now, my second year doing it I started to realize how intelligent they actually were. I would feed them sugar water when they were low on honey reserves. If they were out of sugar water they would come to my house which was about .25 of a mile away and look for me and they would buzz all around me. If one one would sting me and realize it's me, they would spin in a circle to get the stinger out instead of releasing the venom and killing themselves. Honeybees are truly fascinating.

@donavandwelch 16 күн бұрын

These should be played in every high school biology class. You rock

@georgehodgson695 11 күн бұрын

Aye

@masongoser5627 16 күн бұрын

Any chance we can call a longer version of "Bees love balls"? That blend of jazz and funk just WORKS

@mkmartin559 16 күн бұрын

Yes. And it needs to go on an album with the booby song and the puffin theme...and some more. And I need to own that album.

@PFGym5 15 күн бұрын

Yes!!

@chezmoi42 15 күн бұрын

@@mkmartin559 Oh, you said exactly what I was going to post! 👍

@MerryMac1000 13 күн бұрын

Learning that bee's cannot help themselves when they see a ball and have to play with it is the most wholesome thing I've heard in a while. Bee's are just the best.

@starwyn7 3 күн бұрын

“He’s gone for a vape” 😂 I love this guy. If they had this in high school I would have aced science

@flagrantyeti 16 күн бұрын

zefrank is the only creator I watch through one of their sponsor ads for because the zefrank ads are almost as good as the actual subject of the vid!!! Also was today years old when I learned how much bee's love balls!

@kindle4368 16 күн бұрын

TIL Bees are smarter than me.

@JoiH_Squigs 16 күн бұрын

i didn't even know what a bee was, so you're better off than me

@C6BaizhuHaver 16 күн бұрын

@@JoiH_Squigsyou what

@CatFish107 5 күн бұрын

Absolutely delightful "A to B to bee to bee". That one (and I think most of the script to this point) should be good to go for the educational version, straight up! Hehehehehe, thanks for the giggles.