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Letter: On the idea that insects possess consciousness (3)

Published 3 August 2022

From Philip Thonemann, London, UK

Sometimes a bee will get trapped inside my window. When I try to help it out with a piece of card, I often get the impression that, as I approach, the wildly buzzing bee calms down, crawls onto the card and waits hopefully until moved to a place where it can easily fly away. I thought I was imagining this behaviour, but after reading your book review I am not so sure.

Issue no. 3398 published 6 August 2022

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