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What happens if a monitor lizard is trained differently than it was before?

Retry Correct Incorrect In a 2022 study in the Journal of Zoological And Botanical Gardens, monitor lizards were recognized for their keen problem-solving and quick learning abilities. But what really set them apart from other lizards was their capacity for “reversal learning,” which means they can be retrained differently after they’ve learned something.

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What happens if a monitor lizard is trained differently than it was before?

• It freezes in place
• It sticks to the old information
• It unlearns the old information and absorbs the new
• It gets confused and attacks its trainer