Caterpillars literally melt down into a sac of fluid cells, which are used to create the entire body from scratch, forming a butterfly.
Even after all that, they still retain “memories.”
There was an experiment where a caterpillar would be go down one of two tubes, one of which would shock it (and it had an odor).
After a while, it learned to not go down the shocking one.
After becoming a butterfly, they still remembered to avoid the shocking one.
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Even after all that, they still retain “memories.”
There was an experiment where a caterpillar would be go down one of two tubes, one of which would shock it (and it had an odor).
After a while, it learned to not go down the shocking one.
After becoming a butterfly, they still remembered to avoid the shocking one.
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