If Bees are this smart, maybe they should run for office ...

[dogtag]

It never fails to amaze me what so-called scientists think
important. I would have thought that their primary function
would be finding out things that would supposedly benefit
our society and mankind in general. So, what exactly the
benefit would be in finding that bees are wizards at mathematics
i haven't figured out yet but I'm sure it will come to me
eventually.
Actually as far as zero goes, I'm pretty sure it was the ancient
Summerians who first figured that out, but it certainly wasn't
the Arabs who usually get the credit.
Maybe I can get the bees who buzz around my blackberry bush
to help me with my yearly tax return.

https://qz.com/1302703/bees-understa...r-nothingness/

Yeah, more experts in my toilet bowl.

[Marty T.]

Did anyone noticed they were "trained" to do this and not just "picked it up" on their own?

[Vern Humphrey]

it wasn’t until the 13th-century endorsement of the Italian mathematician Leonardo Pisano—better known by his nickname Fibonacci—that the Roman Empire accepted the concept.

Rome fell in 476 AD to the barbarians. So they can be excused for being slow in adopting the concept of zero that was developed about 250 years later.