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by singularity2001 3603 days ago
>> Spiders, as all insects, don't learn.

That is blatantly false. A recent paper has shown that bees can even be trained to distinguishing a handful of human faces( a task which they are of course not optimized for).

for starters: http://insects.about.com/od/behaviorcommunication/f/caninsec...

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It might be more accurate to say that bees have the innate ability to distinguish and remember faces. An insect cannot learn a novel concept they are not able to do innately.