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.2017.00

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.2017.00063 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 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.