Flies remember where to chill out
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- By recalling landmarks in the environment, a leopard can return to the tree where it stashed its kill and a shopper can find her car in the malls parking lot. Fruit flies also commit details of their surroundings to memory, a new study reveals. Understanding how the insects store this information might help researchers find out how humans and other animals create so-called spatial memories.