Bumblebees demonstrate social learning of complex tasks in a study published in Nature.

Bumblebees can teach each other complex tasks through social interaction, according to a study published in the journal Nature. In experiments, scientists discovered that bees, when allowed to observe a trained "demonstrator" bee, easily learned a two-step puzzle box task to access a sugar reward. The researchers suggest that this finding challenges the long-held belief that advanced social learning is unique to humans.