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Attack or retreat? Circuit links hunger and pursuit in sea slug brain
January 25, 2012 by NewsBot
If you were a blind, cannibalistic sea slug, living among others just like you, nearly every encounter with another creature would require a simple cost/benefit calculation: Should I eat that -- or flee? In a new study, researchers report that these responses are linked to a simple circuit in the brain of the sea slug Pleurobranchaea.


