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The UK has made an export industry out of this snobbery and attracts hundreds of thousands of international students for this prestige. I wonder if ethologists
by cblconfederate 5y ago
The UK has made an export industry out of this snobbery and attracts hundreds of thousands of international students for this prestige. I wonder if ethologists have studied this behavior. Queen bees are not selected with an IQ test, they re selected randomly and raised by the plebs to become their queen.It's a successful strategy evidently. I guess something similar might work in primates where the random selection is the 'nearest trusted family friend'.
- pm90 5y agoI’m not so sure. The Queen bees responsibilities as a “leader” are literally just to stay alive and reproduce. Most primate leaders have a lot more responsibilities which they need to excel at. Maybe statistically they still turn out to not matter? Would be interesting to know.
- cblconfederate 5y ago> which they need to excel at. they usually need to keep themselves in power / get reelected. Not necessarily a criterion of excellence.
- pm90 5y agoIneffective leadership for tribes would usually lead to its destruction.
- cblconfederate 5y agothere s a lot of space between effective and excellent
- goldcd 5y agoJust picking up on the Queen Bee point - there can be multiple queen bees created, and when they hatch the first thing they do is kill all unborn queens and then fight to the death any that also hatched.
- somedangedname 5y agoAlso the colony will reject an introduced queen and will attack her if unhatched queen cells are present. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQJ8bJj1XIs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQJ8bJj1XIs