Bees can learn new languages

There are nine species of honeybees found worldwide, and if you're a believer in continental drefi, you'll accept the idea that these species were separated about 30 to 50 million years ago. Subsequently the species of bees developed different dance 'languages' for communication. The content of the messages is the same, but the precise encoding of these languages differs between species.

Following recent research, it has been found that Asian and European honeybees can live happily together in mixed colonies because they easily learn to understand one another's "dance languages" despite having evolved different dialects.