How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains

Re:How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains by adrianN on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:13AM (#13471908)

Blood seems to be a pretty decent cooling agent. Our muscles can generate a lot more waste heat and we manage to get rid of it.

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Re:How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains by cr0sh on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:36AM (#13472837)

It's probably not so much the blood as a whole, but rather the water in it (in fact, I would expect the other parts in blood would make the water less efficient for heat carrying capacity - but they also may have other advantages to that end).

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Re:How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains by lotyrin on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:59PM (#13473747)

Interesting to imagine this difference as a species which has evolved distinct specialized circulatory systems for cooling and for oxygenating tissues.

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