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Uploaded by on Jul 29, 2008

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14423?DCMP=youtube

A bee's foraging patterns are helping to predict where serial killers live based on the area where they've committed crimes.

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  • Unfortunately I don't think people are as predictable as bees... Interesting concept though.

  • sounds like a load of shite to me, what next? the places bears shit will mirror a pattern of thievery amongst old age pensioners?

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  • AND THIS IS WHAT MY TAXES ARE GOING ON FUCKING BEE'S

  • i think theyre a little late on jack the ripper

  • People are just as stupid as bees?

  • the diference is the bees are doing a ob aand the people r killing. do a test with humans pretending to be killers going to places they would kill someone in and record

  • Maybe the tax payer can fund me in my reseach to find serial killers. I know where at less five are hiding. I can even name them. Dick Cheney, the two Bushers, Obama and Gorden Brown.

  • @BogusLarry I think the concept here is that serial killers are thought to use a more "primal" or instinctive thought process in choosing their victims, rather than a logical one. Just as bees don't have a logical thought process "I cannot visit any flowers within a 300-foot radius..." the thought is probably that the serial killers are following some sort of primal behavior, and that is why the patterns are predictable. Not all killers are this way, of course, just some.

  • i have done quite a bit of research of the predictability of humans. There are A LOT of resemblance to that of fish when confronted with a predator of sorts. But that's for a scenario with at least 20 individuals. The more the clearer the results. It doesn't have much to do with this experiment though, other than I can most certainly see how it should work. People really are more predictable than one might think.

  • These must have been creationist scientists.

  • Caution BS alert

  • @BogusLarry my thoughts exactly.. what the hell do bees foraging patterns have to do with the patterns of serial killers

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