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Before reading the article, I googled whether ”the memory of a fruit fly” is a compliment. It’s not.

https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2017.0006...:

“Normally, flies will remember very well and will get an A if they are tested a few minutes after learning. But if there is long time between learning and testing, which for a fruit fly is 1 day, they will forget and get an F”

A fruit fly lives for 40 to 50 days, so 1 day isn’t a long time to remember things for them.

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-fruit-flies-memory.html:

“Flies form a memory of locations they are heading for. This memory is retained for approximately four seconds. This means that if a fly, for instance, deviates from its route for about a second, it can still return to its original direction of travel.”

I couldn’t find how many things they can remember simultaneously.




40 to 50 days... that's quite a bit of time!




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