Bee-Ball.

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      Ball-rolling bumblebees have become the first insects known to "play" with inanimate objects, manipulating wood balls again and again in a series of new experiments. Over 54 hours the team observed each of the experiment's 45 bees contributing to a total of 910 ball-rolling actions; younger and male bees were especially interested in rolling the balls. For a paper published in 2017, Chittka and other scientists taught bumblebees to roll balls in exchange for a sugary prize. [Extracted from the article]
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