Brooding bees lose sleep for their young
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It’s not only human mums who give up precious sleep to care for their newborns. Nursing bees also sacrifice sleep to look after their young – and even offspring that aren’t their own.
That’s one intriguing finding by Guy Bloch’s team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Published by Cosmos.