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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.world)
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[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

When was this? Thought that got proven years ago.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 58 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

you should run an experiment to prove memers forget previous news

[–] trashman@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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 hours ago

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

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 29 points 23 hours 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