Honeybees join humans as the only known animals that can tell the difference between odd and even numbers
- Written by Scarlett Howard, Lecturer, Monash University
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As children, we learn numbers can either be even or odd. And there are many ways to categorise numbers as even or odd.
We may memorise the rule that numbers ending in 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9 are odd while numbers ending in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 are even. Or we may divide a number by 2...





