Nicola Staff asked 4 years ago
As we have indicated, there are many commonalities in the soul makeup of the honeybee. Bees, in their various roles and hierarchy, exhibit many of the qualities of human beings carrying out their cooperative function to provide for a family unit and its survival with many parallels in common—there is a need for cooperative effort, there is a need to construct shelters from the environment, there are needs to acquire food and to share this, there are needs to rear and care for the young, and there are needs to create an infrastructure to provide for a large aggregate of individuals as a colony or community that may need to be relocated, and there needs to be a leadership and a coordination of effort to follow the leader and find a new destination and ecological niche to take up residence anew and start a new hive or a new community in the case of human migrants striking out on their own to start anew.
There are many energies contributing to an altruistic perspective and maintaining a high level of cooperative effort through intercommunication and a selfless dedication to the needs of the whole of the group of individuals that are shared in common by both species. There are also many things done intuitively that are essential to optimal function on the community level as well as in the interpersonal interactions. While the range of behaviors may be quite restricted in the honeybee compared to human, the mechanisms for interaction and the decisions that take place are very similar in nature and each species has elegant modes of communication they exhibit to facilitate the workings of the community and its successful survival over lengthy periods of time.
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