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http://www.techtimes.com/articles/71773/20150724/fruit-flies-show-self-aware-playing-video-game.htm
Paper on the experiment itself : http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/28/10304
Fruit flies have been instrumental to numerous groundbreaking scientific discoveries, but not because of their smarts. One of the quintessential model organisms for scientific research, fruit flies are usually just used in scientific studies for their bodies, but a recent study focused on the fruit fly mind-and showed that these bugs may be brainier than expected.
Paper on the experiment itself : http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/28/10304