Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Biologists have demonstrated that an exotic herb known as Mimosa pudica can learn and remember just as well as it would be expected of animals. By using the same experimental framework normally applied to test learned behavioral responses in animals, biologists from Australia and Italy have successfully demonstrated that Mimosa pudica à ?? an exotic herb native to South America and Central America à ?? can learn and remember just as well as would be expected of animals. The biologists concede that they do not yet understand the biological basis for this learning mechanism, nevertheless their set of experiments has major implications à ?? not least, it radically changes the way we perceive plants and the boundaries between plants and animals, including our definition of learning as a property special to organisms with a nervous system. |
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