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animal kingdom lives a more or less soli? tary existence (except for a minimal amount of social life involved in mating activity and reproduction), whereas the honey bee lives in colonies of up to 60,000 individuals. Honey-bee colonies are much more than aggregations, flocks, or herds, for the individuals within one are so dependent upon one another that no individual, nor even a group of a few hundred individuals, can survive and perpetuate the species in nature.
Walter C. Rothenbuhler (Fri,) studied this question.