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Mairéad Ronan

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768 total appearances

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Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

So they trained them to that.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

That's pretty basic.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

And then what they do is they put them in a little situation where the flower is out of reach...

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

but there is a little ball.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

And the bees have worked out that if they push the ball to the far side where the flower is, stand on top of it, they can access the flower and get the little sip of sugared water.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

Isn't that amazing?

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

So they learnt it.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

And then they put them in various other situations where they turned out the lights and they could still do it because they remembered where the flower was and where the ball was and

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

So bees are a lot more intelligent.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

And they talk about small brains, but look at the technology that we have, the nanotechnology.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

Little chips that can achieve so much.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

So it's no surprise really that a little bee brain can work out how to roll a ball and access an artificial flower.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

This is real good news.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

A Nepalese guide who's believed to have died on Mount Everest has been found crawling to base camp a week after going missing.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

And they were so sure that he was dead that his family had started his funeral rites.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

So Dawa Sherpa, also known as Hillary Dawa Sherpa, after the famous climber Edmund Hillary, who was the first to conquer Mount Everest back in 1958.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

A fellow climber said he was last seen in the death zone, which is never good.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

And they'd written him off and people had done little video tributes to him and all.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

And then six days later, he crawls.

Ray D'Arcy Daily
Being Cool. The Wig Debate and a lot of IKEA.

He's found crawling towards base camp and he's alive.