*I hope this insect-brain researcher is off his rocker, because I really don't want to confront a new paradigm where a mosquito is stalking me with as much smarts as a hungry alleycat.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117124009.htm
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Research repeatedly shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behaviours scientists previously thought was unique to larger animals. Honeybees, for example, can count, categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces, understand 'same'...
Published on November 19, 2009 03:35
Ants, on the other hand are fascinating; their caste system and group-behavior, etc. fascinated Edmund O. Wilson enough to write a book that will be studied for centuries. Please excuse the exaggeration and facesiousness and mispelling in this reply; I'm not a scientist, just an interested observer.