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A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognize him. He spent two years making an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not remove memories made during the caterpillar stage. (lemmy.nz)
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[-] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 6 days ago

When was this? Thought that got proven years ago.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 65 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

you should run an experiment to prove memers forget previous news

[-] trashman@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

Bullshit! Memes are the best news source out there! E.g. I just learned that there is this new Pokémon that is kind of slow.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

A slow Pokémon? A slow Poké? Is he a Slowpoke?

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

already forgot the name of the Pokemon, interesting...

[-] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 33 points 6 days ago

Yah this is from 2024 I believe, studying swallowtail butterflies. Couldn’t find the paper but there is a lot of blogspam out there talking about it

10-Year-Old Discovers That Butterfly Memories Survive Metamorphosis and Can Be Inherited

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