00:00What did you find special when seeing about the findings that we've made in bees?
00:05The first thing surprising was that a member of my species chose to look so closely into
00:12some other species, apparently not for reasons of exploitation, that in itself is the meta-surprise.
00:22You see my work is on the self, the human ego.
00:27And whenever any discovery lands in the hands of this self, as most discoveries inevitably
00:36do, they are only going to be appropriated, misappropriated, and put to destructive use.
00:44So curiosity in the other is not so rare.
00:48What is rare is selfless curiosity in the other.
00:52This is Professor Lars Chitka.
00:55For years he studied one of the smallest creatures on earth, the bee.
01:00What he discovered surprised scientists around the world.
01:04A bee doesn't simply fly from flower to flower.
01:07It looks at different flowers, compares them, remembers which ones gave it the most nectar,
01:13and then makes the best choice.
01:14They stop, think, compare different options, and then decide.
01:19Despite having one of the smallest brains in nature.
01:22here.
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