While the octopus has a fairly large brain when compared to the rest of its body size, about two thirds of its neurons are distributed around its arms, in clusters called ganglia. This means that when the octopus senses information about the environment through a sucker, it can react faster than if a signal travelled …
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The other day I was lying at the base of a tree, my eyes travelling up the line of trunk up till where the branches perpendicularly fought against the anti-gravitational growth of their producer. As I observed the direction of the branches, I was reminded of the beautiful phenomenon that is the fibonacci sequence. The …
Clown fish are sequential hermaphrodites – they are born one gender but have the ability to switch to the other gender. This is because they have both testicular tissue and ovarian tissue so they are able to develop both reproductive organs, and somehow also instinctively know how to perform the actions that is controlled …
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