Cuttlefish moms laugh at "The-Pre-Natal Baby's First Music Lessons"

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Cuttlefish embryos learn how to recognize prey visually

Remarkably, cuttlefish embryos not exposed to crabs preferred to hunt shrimp once they were born.

But those embryos exposed to crabs much preferred to hunt crabs after hatching. And the clearer the view of the crabs they were given, the greater their taste for it.

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[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Actually, this kind of gives the whole playing music for your fetus thing some support - if cuttlefish can develop their brains before birth, surely we humans can do it too. (I wonder if such music would be associated with the comfort of the womb, or if we're more like cuttlefish and it would just make babies more interested in hunting down Mozart or whoever.)