how do humans study things, like bees, and understand their social and communicate behaviours?

Question

Just saw a post about bees and them having a democracy, and then someone mentions things like how communicate and the nuances to their communication.

How the eff does that work

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Answer 1

For bees specifically it probably helps that we’ve domesticated them for 10,000 years and when you support a bee hive they still do the majority of their natural behaviours, making them pretty easy to do long term studies.