“I remember you also telling me in Tanzania that octopuses are extraordinarily clever and can solve all sorts of problems even though their brains are structured so differently from mammalian brains,” I said. Jane laughed. “They actually have brains in each of their eight arms! Here’s something else you’ll like—apparently you can teach bumblebees to roll a little ball into a hole for the reward of a drop of nectar. And even more remarkably—other bees, who have not been trained, can perform the same task after merely watching the trained bees. We are learning new things all the time and I
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