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9: Beaver Reintroductions, Solving Mazes, and ASMR

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The Slime Mold

The organism in question is called physarum polycephalum. It looks like a mess of bright slimy yellow silly string. Despite being called a slime mold, it's not actually a fungus. They're what's known as a protist and they're technically one single cell. So no brain, no nervous system. Fascinating a whole other topic for another day. Back to the page you came from.

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