In 2000, Japanese researchers placed Physarum polycephalum - the name means "many-headed slime mold" - in a maze, along with two blocks of food.

2000年，日本研究人员将多头绒泡菌(Physarum polycephalum)—意思是“多头黏菌”—连同两块食物一起放入一个迷宫。

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Scientists know a lot about the two lab-friendly species Physarum and Dictyostelium, but they still know very little about the many other slime molds on earth.

科学家对于实验室经常使用的两种黏菌—绒泡菌和盘基网柄菌—已经十分了解，对于地球上的其他黏菌却知之甚少。

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Toshiyuki Nakagaki of the Bio-Mimetic Control Research Centre, Nagoya, Japan, placed pieces of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum in an agar gel maze comprising four possible routes.

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