Terrestrials 09. The Crystal Ball: Giant Honeybees Who Predict the Future

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The honeybee. The ever-important pollinator for our plants is disappearing. Our official bug correspondent, Dr. Sammy Ramsey, takes us to the heart of a jungle in Bangladesh to learn how the most overlooked bees could possibly save all the honey bees in the world.

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0:25.0	3, 3, 3. 3.
0:29.0	3, 2, one. Imagine your eyeballs grow lots of hair.
0:38.0	And you suddenly get really good at math.
0:42.0	Trigonometry in particular.
0:43.0	The study of angles, triangles, and stuff.
0:45.0	But instead of showing off that math with a pen and paper,
0:48.0	you show it off.
0:50.0	By dancing, you shake it to the left,
0:52.0	aye, you shake it to the left, hey, you shake it to the right,
0:54.1	hey, do you waggle waggle waggle and point your body in the perfect angle
0:58.5	to show your siblings how to find flowers.
1:02.4	You have become a honeybee. But not just any honeybee.
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