I read a study once about caterpillars getting shocked in their cages to teach them which areas are electrified. They retained this memory aversion after turning into butterflies. Probably something similar, basic behavioral observations to stimuli.
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Efwis@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
My question is, how do they know what a snail is thinking or remembers? Last I knew snails didn’t talk.
solstice@lemmy.world 10 months ago
UnendingQuest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Probably something like the snail learned to find food in a certain place, then they were able to make it forget such that it would search randomly instead of going to the place it had learned.
Efwis@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Lol, I can see it now.
“Im going to sit here for 8-12 hours and watch where this snail goes today.”
Sorry couldn’t resist.
UmbrellAssassin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sounds like a good job.