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Bee positivity is contagious

Gail P Sherman
Oct 24, 2025
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Good moods can be contagious. Humans often adopt the mood of fellow humans. Other mammals, and even some other non-mammalian vertebrates like parrots and zebrafish, do the same. For the first time, researchers have observed this in an invertebrate species, the humble bumblebee.

In a paper published in Science, researchers found that even the re…

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