While animals including crows, chimps, dogs and dolphins are all highly trainable, you might think that the bumblebee, with its much smaller brain, wouldn't really get the hang of learning a new behavior from a trainer. However, in the words of a researcher from Queen Mary University of London: "Our study puts the final nail in the coffin of the idea that small brains constrain insects to have limited behavioural flexibility and only simple learning abilities."
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