re: A woman cared for an aging bumble bee for 12 days

That is a beautiful woman. Got some young Shania Twain look to her.

Seeing this thread after the one on Punch, I wonder if she'd also care for macaque?

No, that's not what I'm doing. I'm also not saying they don't share similar traits.

Trust doesn't explicitly mean that a creature is cognitively understanding that they trust in the way we trust. Trust to an insect means they understand that something is not going to hurt them. In the same way it trusts a rock to be steady. It trusted that the giant wasn't going to hurt her and she didn't need to assume that she was in danger. Whether that occurrence is conscious or subconscious is irrelevant. It's still trust.

There was nothing about that video that implied the woman was anthropomorphising or even elevating the bee to have emotions beyond her capability.

The real issue, and honestly this is a real big issue, is that there are some in this thread feel that she was getting teary eyed because she has ascribed some false consciousness to the bee. She isn't. She is crying because the idea of any life being cast away, even if that's the nature of the species, evokes the idea of herself being in that same position of being cast away with nobody to save her, and it makes her sad. It makes her think about her own mortality, and the mortality of the people she loves, and so she takes action, even if the bee can't fully appreciate what's happening, she can. It's called empathy.