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There are many reasons why research with hydra may interest psychologists who work primarily with Planaria. Historically, the first experiments in which the feeding of a cut-up planaria to another organism led to a major scientific advance were carried out using hydra over 200 years ago by Abraham Trembley (1744). Besides being responsible for many great advances in biology, such as making the first animal grafts using hydra, Trembley also noted that hydra, fed on pieces of planaria, retained the black color of their prey. Although Trembley of course did not attempt to show that the hydra learned from ingestion of the planaria, through these feeding experiments, he is credited with having made the first vital stain (Baker, 1952).
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Lenhoff, H.M. (1967). Some Ionic, Chemical, and Endogenous Factors Affecting Behavior of Hydra. In: Corning, W.C., Ratner, S.C. (eds) Chemistry of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6565-3_22
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