In 1908, Charles Henry Turner, the first African American to be published in the prestigious journal
Science, devised a simple, yet intriguing experiment that seemed to indicate that bees have some perception of time. He started by placing plates of strawberry jam on an outdoor table at dawn, noon, and dusk. Bees soon began arriving regularly at those times to feed. Then, Turner stopped the noon and dusk feedings. At first, the bees continued to arrive at all three times, but soon adjusted their feeding times and only came in the mornings. This was one of the first of Turner's seminal insights into insect cognition.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
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The passage describes an experiment performed by Charles Henry Turner that showed bees changed their feeding patterns when the food sources changed. This matches (C), the correct answer. The passage says that the bees changed the time they arrived for food, so (A) is incorrect. Choice (B) is incorrect because the text never discusses Taylor's recognition, and says he was published in a "prestigious" journal. The passage never discusses the times that bees prefer to feed, so (D) is incorrect.
