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Why Each Octopus Arm Has a Mind of Its Own

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By Cara Giaimo Verified
| Tech News Tube
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When Your Brain Is in Your Arm

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By Cara Giaimo Verified
| WIRED Magazine Verified
Octopuses are clever enough to unscrew jars from the inside and throw sand at their annoying neighbors. But only a fraction of their smarts come from their doughnut-shaped brains. Over two-thirds of their roughly 500 million neurons reside in eight sucker-studded arms—a kind of distributed intelligence unique to cephalopods. Each of these powerful appendages can move in any direction and taste and feel with exquisite sensitivity.
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Żyrafy radzą sobie z liczbami lepiej niż psy i konie. Nuru i Njano zdały matematyczny sprawdzian

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By Cara Giaimo Verified
| national-geographic.pl
Żyrafy są najwyższymi ssakami lądowymi na świecie – ich głowy górują nad sawanną na wysokości niemal dwóch pięter. A co dzieje się w głowie usytuowanej tak wysoko? Okazuje się, że żyrafy mogą wykonywać własną wersję działań matematycznych. W nowym badaniu opublikowanym na łamach czasopisma „Scientific Reports” naukowcy wykazali, że niektóre żyrafy potrafią łączyć w pamięci różne ilości.
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