This one will be quick. I adore Ramses. I admit that my characterization of Edmund is strongly influenced by another precocious, brilliant, fictional, young man -- Miles Vorkosigan. My views of the domestic management of Cair Paravel also come from that Vorkosigan House depictions -- Ma Kosti, Pym, and other.
As for the bees, they do not actually talk in Narnia, though Cap Red recently introduced a talking spider. Rather, I assume that those who are more attuned to the natural world and naturally observant, have made the same observations that will eventually result in Von Frisch's observations in 1947 and winning the Nobel Prize in 1973. The bee dancing observations were observations and study and I figured Pliny the Elder of Narnia described it in his Botanica or it was since confirmed by other observers. Come to think of it, I could add that as a title to the Physician's bookshelf.
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As for the bees, they do not actually talk in Narnia, though Cap Red recently introduced a talking spider. Rather, I assume that those who are more attuned to the natural world and naturally observant, have made the same observations that will eventually result in Von Frisch's observations in 1947 and winning the Nobel Prize in 1973. The bee dancing observations were observations and study and I figured Pliny the Elder of Narnia described it in his Botanica or it was since confirmed by other observers. Come to think of it, I could add that as a title to the Physician's bookshelf.