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Why do bees build hexagonal honeycombs? - Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: Episode 1 - BBC One

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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Programme website: bbc.in/29kGs3z Honeybees around the world build perfectly hexagonal honeycombs, but why? Professor Brian Cox reveals the hidden mathematical rule behind one of nature's most perfect shapes
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  • You can see his excitement. He is talking about this with awe. Love it.

    @alton7889@alton78895 жыл бұрын

    • not sure how he can go the whole speech without mention phi or the divine proportions

      @jakejeffery8097@jakejeffery80974 ай бұрын

    • probably second thought video on this channel

      @Alexandru9883@Alexandru98832 ай бұрын

  • I can't find a video of bees making a honey comb from scratch.

    @19AGJ86@19AGJ867 жыл бұрын

    • kzhead.info/sun/ZLKfmLmpj3qFZ2g/bejne.html Read also Quran bee’s chapter

      @ahmada5539@ahmada55395 жыл бұрын

    • Maybe they are aliens

      @helenarichard@helenarichard5 жыл бұрын

    • Sounds islamistic

      @helenarichard@helenarichard5 жыл бұрын

    • @@ahmada5539 "The KZhead account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement."

      @MrV902@MrV9025 жыл бұрын

    • 2 years later, I've been searching for a while now and I cant find any either

      @bbyskittles91@bbyskittles915 жыл бұрын

  • I thought he was going to explain it

    @iwakuraSanta@iwakuraSanta7 жыл бұрын

    • it might be in the actual full episode.

      @amiryounes5782@amiryounes57827 жыл бұрын

    • arrghgarry q

      @eusebiolacanilao6887@eusebiolacanilao68876 жыл бұрын

    • He can't explain what he doesn't know.

      @sirpudding1581@sirpudding15815 жыл бұрын

    • ClickBEEt (I will let.myself out)

      @helenarichard@helenarichard5 жыл бұрын

    • They said that it’s not agreed upon

      @kaiyal.185@kaiyal.1853 жыл бұрын

  • the honeycomb conjecture is a good band name

    @bsjeffrey@bsjeffrey7 жыл бұрын

    • they could use mathematical equations to create music.

      @dusterdude238@dusterdude2387 жыл бұрын

    • "Free Beer" is a good band name. :-)

      @xnonsuchx@xnonsuchx7 жыл бұрын

    • BEEtles is better. Actually, the Beatles were almost called the Beetles

      @helenarichard@helenarichard5 жыл бұрын

  • You just have to love Brian Cox

    @EGT-kf2hu@EGT-kf2hu2 жыл бұрын

  • 1:40... "bee-haviour"? --- I'm sorry, I had to do it... xD

    @Keytaster@Keytaster7 жыл бұрын

  • Bees are amazing. I love bees. Bees

    @NoodleBlackandFat@NoodleBlackandFat7 жыл бұрын

    • Love God, He is even more amazing!

      @BillMorganChannel@BillMorganChannel4 жыл бұрын

    • @@BillMorganChannel sorry busta but not even god comes close to the Bee

      @seemeslegit3765@seemeslegit37652 жыл бұрын

    • @@seemeslegit3765 I did a creation lesson on bees. Hundreds of bees, with no training, begin crawling all over each other, in the pitch dark, and build these beautiful honeycombs. Busta loves science and God and bees...Semens do you love God too?

      @BillMorganChannel@BillMorganChannel2 жыл бұрын

  • It is the frequency resonance from the bees buzzing wings that shapes the honeycomb hexagonaly. Cymatrics 😀

    @markmcgugan8665@markmcgugan86655 жыл бұрын

  • Why does he have such a satisfying face to look at??

    @seniorbishop7986@seniorbishop79863 жыл бұрын

  • Because hexagons are the bestagons! Btw I have seen the others comments on other videos but I thought of it before I read the comments, so it's not copying.

    @geewillikers918@geewillikers9183 жыл бұрын

  • I love that he pronounce it "hexigans". I wonder if he calls people from Mexico "mexigons"

    @DoseOfNuance@DoseOfNuance5 жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂

      @kaanjel@kaanjel Жыл бұрын

  • The bees obviously use a ruler every time, for every side. One of the bees studied architecture and designed the specific hive. He has to wear a hat during construction.

    @helenarichard@helenarichard5 жыл бұрын

    • Lol!

      @nessa9752@nessa97525 жыл бұрын

    • true

      @AR-zz8de@AR-zz8de4 ай бұрын

  • I suspect that these little insects are highly intelligent, building hexagonal shapes! I'm amazed! 🤠

    @humanoid31@humanoid319 ай бұрын

  • SAVE BEES!!! They are geniuses!

    @ChristinaGina@ChristinaGina7 жыл бұрын

    • 💜💜talking facts😂

      @r_tae3607@r_tae36073 жыл бұрын

    • They are not. Its called instincts. They have it naturaly without thinking about it. Therefore, still not cleverer than us. Sometimes i feel like i am the only human on the whole planet, that knows exactly that we as a species ARE infact very very clever. Because we think. Animals often dont think. They have it in their bodies already. So sick of those "humans are so dumb" arguments....

      @NanocDark99@NanocDark99 Жыл бұрын

  • I suppose you could use the honeycomb conjecture to help describe why the center of a planet core could be hexagonal. If the core was very magnetic, it could create a hexagonal imprint on the planets surface, like on Saturn north pole?

    @4cornersmedia@4cornersmedia7 жыл бұрын

  • I remember seeing a video of bees actually making the hexagons themselves. I could be wrong but I remember it comes from their mouth, or they use their mouths somehow.

    @DirtCobaine@DirtCobaine3 жыл бұрын

  • He's right. I had a bee do my taxes last year and I got the biggest return I've ever had.

    @ThunderPants13@ThunderPants133 жыл бұрын

    • that's a great comment

      @sharkmug1583@sharkmug15832 жыл бұрын

  • Love this guy and this segment was really cool! Would love to know more! Hope they figure out soon how the bees make those shapes. Would it not be(e) possible to put up a camera and watch them in action?

    @JustSaralius@JustSaralius7 жыл бұрын

    • Great idea!

      @janetmcabee4748@janetmcabee47484 ай бұрын

  • “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C Clarke. 🐝 ‘s are among Natures most amazing drones.

    @lindsaycoffey3327@lindsaycoffey3327 Жыл бұрын

  • Now that you figured out bees honeycombs. How sturdy are ant tunnels as ants generally live underground?

    @hydrolito@hydrolito9 ай бұрын

  • I think @CGPGrey agrees that hexagons truly are the best-agons!

    @peterrose4034@peterrose40348 ай бұрын

  • Thank you for interesting video of internal life of the hive. Best wishes to the entomologists and beekeepers and bumble-bees and insect lovers!

    @VictorFursov@VictorFursov Жыл бұрын

  • This is one of the prove of the intelligence designed in nature.

    @JoJoJe@JoJoJe7 ай бұрын

  • She must've bit right into a hexagonal like it was an apple.

    @dirkmassey5654@dirkmassey56547 ай бұрын

  • How come he says people don’t know if bees make the wax into circles first or straight to hexagons? Can people not film bees doing this?

    @WYJAFAK2@WYJAFAK23 жыл бұрын

  • I think bees 🐝 are smart af

    @knottybatcreations@knottybatcreations2 жыл бұрын

  • I saw a video about the sound they produce that creates a frequency that shapes the hexagons

    @jsmit9161@jsmit91615 ай бұрын

  • the Great One shows us his wondrous power by subtle means . . .

    @GaZonk100@GaZonk1007 жыл бұрын

  • There is something to be said about the peaceful droning of the bees wings along with the shape hexagon of the honeycomb and the fact that honeycomb never goes bad. Unity:)

    @calebriley7466@calebriley7466 Жыл бұрын

  • Things can only get better 💓

    @wkb9683@wkb96836 жыл бұрын

  • How the hell are scientists teaching evolution if they can't even show a honeycomb being built 💀💀💀💀

    @wolfpox@wolfpox8 ай бұрын

  • when you realize bees are better at maths then you

    @amitgrsingh@amitgrsingh3 жыл бұрын

  • Hi BBC, I have just contributed a Translation into Vietnamese so many of our people can understand this interesting and helpful video. Can you approve the Translation ASAP, thanks

    @ogiadungtienichchomoinhake4580@ogiadungtienichchomoinhake45805 жыл бұрын

  • I assumed it had to do with the pulling forces* where as triangles may be more well suited to downward pressure (without volume contributing in any way.)

    @alwaysyouramanda@alwaysyouramanda Жыл бұрын

  • Professor Brian Cox ... Ultimately ...has to be one of our greatest inovators of our modern times ...i SALUTE THEE ( excuse spelling I am Dyslexic)......Namasste

    @victoriahampson1602@victoriahampson16027 жыл бұрын

  • Hexagons in nature might go back even further...... basalt colums are usually hexagonal.

    @BoroBootBoy@BoroBootBoy9 ай бұрын

  • Blessed Allah the greatest creator

    @sufianaldib9469@sufianaldib94692 жыл бұрын

  • theme music of this clip??any idea

    @shivanshetty53@shivanshetty534 жыл бұрын

  • That way Pentagon seems more fundamental as it involves golden triangle and the ratios of lengths based on phi.

    @subhashbehere6798@subhashbehere6798 Жыл бұрын

  • Hexagons are the bestagons

    @HerralemanZyG@HerralemanZyG2 жыл бұрын

  • The way bee evolved the ability to build honeycombs is amazing.

    @lycaonpictus4433@lycaonpictus44333 жыл бұрын

    • Ha ha ha! 🤣.

      @teaezra5916@teaezra59163 жыл бұрын

    • "evolved" to build such perfect honeycombs, sure jan

      @MatthewOlls@MatthewOlls2 жыл бұрын

    • @@MatthewOlls sure bob

      @lycaonpictus4433@lycaonpictus44332 жыл бұрын

    • do u have brain .

      @bestryfulhd2102@bestryfulhd21022 жыл бұрын

    • @@bestryfulhd2102 i think , maybe I'm the first person that can function without one Do you have one ?

      @lycaonpictus4433@lycaonpictus44332 жыл бұрын

  • I like hexagons

    @chill3569@chill35694 жыл бұрын

  • That's great information, however, it still doesn't answer the question of "HOW they know to do it and or HOW they accomplish the shape.

    @scoggzap@scoggzap Жыл бұрын

  • I am most interested in the formation of the first hexagon of a honeycomb…is it a specific bee? Does the vibration thereafter resonate in a way other bees just need to plug away?

    @squashduos1258@squashduos12585 ай бұрын

  • Bees’ are some very intelligent creatures

    @janetmcabee4748@janetmcabee47484 ай бұрын

  • There is a surprising lack of content of bees building honeycombs. This seems to be an area we've observed very little of.

    @KokoRicky@KokoRicky4 жыл бұрын

    • Yep..I,ve wondered if its the resonic sound frequency vibration of the bees wings forming the hexagon shapes..like geometric patterns forming on a sound board with sand on..just a thought!!

      @Trooper101st@Trooper101st2 жыл бұрын

  • 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌74% efficiency in hexagonal close packing.

    @jkchemistry3672@jkchemistry36722 жыл бұрын

  • Bee-haviour great pun there

    @Finnyzation@Finnyzation3 жыл бұрын

  • Why not a square , a rectangle , a triangle ? They dont leave spaces in them either 🤔

    @PrimeGaming10@PrimeGaming105 жыл бұрын

    • Good question...

      @arturkvieira@arturkvieira4 жыл бұрын

    • I guess because u can build any form with it without losing the pattern.unlike square or triangle, at somepoint it will be irregular

      @maricrispengson5602@maricrispengson56024 жыл бұрын

    • A hexagon holds the most volume, contains the most volume or honey using the LEAST amount of walls, a triangle using a meter of walls on it's 3 sides will hold slightly less honey than a hexagon using a meter of walls on it's 6 sides etc

      @ArtyMars@ArtyMars4 жыл бұрын

  • Music is the universal human language. Mathematics is the language of the universe.

    @zbzb-ic1sr@zbzb-ic1sr7 жыл бұрын

    • music is what?

      @liquidphilosopher1816@liquidphilosopher18165 жыл бұрын

  • What about Toblerone? They use triangular almonds from triangular trees and triangular honey from triangular bees.

    @paullawtable@paullawtable6 жыл бұрын

  • I love bees🐝❤️

    @snuggluff@snuggluff3 жыл бұрын

  • 0:21 Did he say 'Abbey' in the subtitle? Or 'a bee'. It wasn't abyss, surely? Interesting building work inspired from the familial nature!

    @hyekang3850@hyekang38504 жыл бұрын

  • This dude would great to drop an heroic dose of shrooms with.

    @pauld9561@pauld95616 ай бұрын

  • Intelligent design.

    @YIFYPIRATE786@YIFYPIRATE7862 жыл бұрын

  • He has an accent, therefore he must be legit

    @dingleberrynews7222@dingleberrynews7222 Жыл бұрын

  • The question that I want an answer to is why do ALL bees make hexagonal honeycombs. Do they telepathicaly communicate, are they all controlled by an overmind, like the zerg, or what?

    @vidiac2012@vidiac20127 жыл бұрын

    • The same way all smartphones know to connect to the internet. They're all programmed the same way.

      @14598175@145981757 жыл бұрын

  • Conclusion: bee mathematicians are smarter than human mathematicians

    @royalbloodedledgend@royalbloodedledgend Жыл бұрын

  • Wow so much info

    @sakuraturbo3364@sakuraturbo33642 жыл бұрын

  • Man this fellow just leave without any explanation

    @user-qh4bm8cz4k@user-qh4bm8cz4k4 ай бұрын

  • Fantastic

    @poppetrurazvan3900@poppetrurazvan39003 жыл бұрын

  • good video

    @traderlincolnmitchell9786@traderlincolnmitchell97866 жыл бұрын

  • thxs

    @shaniaelibox4038@shaniaelibox40385 жыл бұрын

  • Why couldn't GCSE Maths be as brilliant as this?

    @bowtieanimation@bowtieanimation7 жыл бұрын

    • Because the government-run education system sucks

      @andreamanca8736@andreamanca87367 жыл бұрын

    • School is meant to brainwash not educate.

      @liawatson5789@liawatson57897 жыл бұрын

    • LOL

      @andrewmurray409@andrewmurray4097 жыл бұрын

  • Honestly anyone can draw one correctly it could just go on and on and on and on and on🤪 and on of course with a ruler is much easier 📐📏 those are some creative beeusy little ladies🖤🐝

    @chikararexzpo@chikararexzpo2 жыл бұрын

  • It doesn't take papers of math to conclude that the hexagonal formation is the most effecient structure. Now, how does the bee construct the cells in perfect uniformity? That's what I want to know.

    @atticuskilby515@atticuskilby5153 жыл бұрын

    • Agree. Would it not have been easier to construct the shapes in the same amount of space and then see which holds the most water or honey? Further it might be that bees find it easier to make a hexagon shape than any other shape, and that holding maximum quantity honey is not the reason for the hexagon shape.

      @DrMontague@DrMontague2 жыл бұрын

    • @@DrMontague , and digger even deeper, those hexagons allow for a certain frequency in the hive. This may be part of their communicating aparatus. Yes, they use pheromones, but I believe that there is so much more.

      @atticuskilby515@atticuskilby5152 жыл бұрын

    • @@atticuskilby515mayb it's the vibration from the buzzing of the bees that forms the hexagon shape.

      @anitrustgga9870@anitrustgga98709 ай бұрын

  • Hello .. Can I translate this video into Kurdish? And post it on my channel on KZhead? Thank you for your cooperation

    @dawan83@dawan834 жыл бұрын

  • What am I missing? No one knows if honeybees intentionally make hexagons or they make circles that become hexagons? Can't we just watch them?

    @CannonKnight@CannonKnight3 жыл бұрын

  • I wonderinb the same but the answer seems inconclusive enough 😊

    @safecyber7996@safecyber79967 ай бұрын

  • the problem is bees they do not use hexagonal honeycomb they use heptagonal prism 6 sides down attached one point up because this the only way to built spheric shape as teams working simultunialy

    @ilhandurmus@ilhandurmus Жыл бұрын

  • I didn’t know Steven Tyler did nature videos

    @briansounalath@briansounalath3 ай бұрын

  • How are bees so smart???? 😊

    @mvann5@mvann5 Жыл бұрын

  • 1:36 has this never been recorded or witnessed...?

    @blindchase@blindchase7 жыл бұрын

  • TRULY, GOD MADE THIS WHOLE UNIVERSE. WONDERFUL AND AMAZING 😇🙏☝.

    @doodsravenlolo7173@doodsravenlolo71734 жыл бұрын

    • @toklaut and another what about it?

      @greenprofile5755@greenprofile57554 жыл бұрын

    • @toklaut and another actually I come to this video after reading the verses. It's in surah An-Nahl Chapter 16:68-69. It's just wonderful how God described some of the works done by bees that I never thought before. It increases my creed 🙂

      @quranreciter7637@quranreciter76374 жыл бұрын

    • I should have guessed that someone would try to bring religion into it. Nature made the universe - not a conscious god.

      @Rich7714@Rich77143 жыл бұрын

  • hexagons are the bestagons

    @TRBenjiSwiss@TRBenjiSwiss3 жыл бұрын

  • Unbeelievable

    @666ingz@666ingz11 ай бұрын

  • 🐝 are the best

    @emailruchi@emailruchi4 жыл бұрын

    • Yup

      @emailruchi@emailruchi4 жыл бұрын

  • *And you know my name is Simon, and I like to do droorings.*

    @mackinblack@mackinblack5 жыл бұрын

  • SAVE THE BEES

    @4hotpink10@4hotpink107 жыл бұрын

  • Save the bees

    @Playboysmurf1@Playboysmurf17 жыл бұрын

  • the honey bee shows in the wild that is uses force on the comb until it can not be forced and moves on. By having a force applied in just 3 directions this is achieved with out thinking about space but deal with wax generated from glands and chewing it and placing it. There is no debate it is just a piece of wax placed sometimes its a line or a dot but it will turn into a hexagon no mater how it starts. It is litterally a force of a honey bee pressing in 3 directions and that is all. Just like your dark matter it is litterally everything that does not emit light like the core of the earth and dust.

    @tomahawkmissile241@tomahawkmissile241 Жыл бұрын

  • Why is the consideration of wax collapsing to a hexagon a thing. Wax when for example a wax candle collapses doesn’t fall evenly, why is it supposedly that it will collapse to a hexagon? Curious

    @juancarreon9985@juancarreon99852 жыл бұрын

  • Argh haha, love/hate...love Brian but am tripophobic!! Can't wait for the new series :)

    @sisterofnight451@sisterofnight4517 жыл бұрын

  • We can now conclude that bees are intellectuals. 😌

    @TiffanyRusell@TiffanyRusell3 жыл бұрын

  • Bees solved this mathematical problems ages ago..

    @OriginalThisAndThat@OriginalThisAndThat4 жыл бұрын

  • Darwin writes about bees and their hexagon in his, "On the Origin of Species." Right before his discussion about bees, Darwin writes about ants. Darwin's musings on ants are some of the funniest stuff I've ever read. Darwin knew that if he used certain words when describing ants, he'd crack-up his readers. Strange to find laughs inside Darwin, but these laughs are there.

    @BlantonDelbert@BlantonDelbert3 жыл бұрын

  • Don't worry, bee-happy.

    @GoPnIK_1@GoPnIK_13 жыл бұрын

  • Mathematics is the shadow of Sacred Geometry... If a tree bears fruit, you telling me it is an 'apple' changes nothing.

    @Blakdog333@Blakdog333 Жыл бұрын

  • I watching now cause I have either wasps or yellow jackets building some outside my apartment in front of my door.

    @getvnews1918@getvnews19185 жыл бұрын

  • Cool

    @jonathanjollimore4794@jonathanjollimore47942 жыл бұрын

  • You look like the baby’s dad in the game Death Stranding

    @faithlove8101@faithlove81012 жыл бұрын

  • Because hexagons are the bestagons!

    @sidPalma@sidPalma Жыл бұрын

    • They are the bestagons

      @connorcarrillo1068@connorcarrillo10689 ай бұрын

  • Cuz they are born in that they were like tadpole like frog and many days they will hatch and build theire home cause they born there so they make it home even its hexagon

    @violetanovo9751@violetanovo97514 жыл бұрын

  • Surely there are some simple lab experiments with bees or phds getting the bees to build honey combs inside different structures and see if they produce hexagonal ones?

    @classlessmass9591@classlessmass95917 жыл бұрын

    • classless mass everything requires intelligence.

      @HTPJ@HTPJ6 жыл бұрын

  • 1:50 Subtitles: Texicans BBC just invented the word for a person born from a Texan and a Mexican.

    @Pablo-V@Pablo-V3 жыл бұрын

  • In the Holy Quran. There is a chapter called “The Bees” It states God’s creativity is shown through the instinct of the bees 🙏🏼

    @_7.8.6@_7.8.63 жыл бұрын

    • And the ants are amazing also

      @steveurkel9440@steveurkel94403 жыл бұрын

    • Dude, religions are so boring. It's always the god. Those old books are only giving credit to that invisible magician. He's so OP in holy books.

      @gamesps9562@gamesps95629 ай бұрын

    • @@gamesps9562 because attributing creation to a creator is so boring. Islam teaches you face reality, internal knowledge and external knowledge are branches of the same tree

      @_7.8.6@_7.8.69 ай бұрын

    • @@_7.8.6 Your reality.

      @gamesps9562@gamesps95629 ай бұрын

  • He looks like a young Steven Tyler from Aerosmith 😁

    @jennyong4753@jennyong4753 Жыл бұрын

  • It's because the bees cooperate with each other and know it's the only way to survive. We are all mostly independent. We don't work together anymore. :/

    @eliazarelizondo7075@eliazarelizondo70753 жыл бұрын

  • Dat be cool

    @dizzi_dizers342@dizzi_dizers3425 жыл бұрын

  • Still couldn't say it out loud could you, hah Brian? Its God who gives the bees the skill to build hexagon...

    @ahmadkhairul9038@ahmadkhairul903810 ай бұрын
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