The Mind of the Hive

The Mind of the Hive

Four Journeys into the Secret Language of HoneybeesBy Rowan Casidy
Michael Caine
Listen with Sir Michael Caine™ and 1,000+ voices
Length48m

About this audiobook

The single run is only the beginning. Book Two widens out from the one bee to the whole colony and the whole kind: a homeless swarm arguing its way to a new home with no leader to decide, dialects that drift from one species to the next, the sound the run makes for listeners in total darkness, and the way the message changes shape with the distance it has to carry. Part natural history and part meditation on what language really is, each journey ends not on a lesson but on a single image you can almost feel.

Audiobook details

GenreScience and Nature
Length48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Hive That Argued in the Open
2The Same Dance, A Different Tongue
3The Sound the Darkness Makes
4The Distance That Changes the Telling

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