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Guess it’s time to stop insulting creatures based on their brain size, because it looks like we found a creature who can do quite bit with no brain whatsoever.
Meet slime mold, which may or may not prefer to be called by its proper name, Physarum polycegphalumi, which one assumes we’ll figure out how to ask it at some point. It isn’t considered animal, vegetable, or fungus, but an amoeba that’s shown the ability to “…solve complicated mazes, anticipate events, remember where it has been, construct transport networks comparable to those designed by human engineers and even make irrational decisions – something long-considered the private domain of those of us with brains,” according to Treehugger’s Melissa Breyer.
So, the next time someone calls you slime, take it as a compliment.
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