Cockroaches Respond to Peer Pressure, Study Suggests

A surprising story from The New York Times:

Many a mother has said, with a sigh, “If your friends jumped off a cliff,
would you jump, too?”

The answer, for cockroaches at least, may well be yes. Researchers using robotic roaches were able to convince real cockroaches to do things that their instincts told them were not the best idea.