– Why do flies find it so difficult to leave a room through a window?
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Flies have an undivided bilateral brain structure, and are missing the Ockner-Abbott gene, which provides the pitch/yaw functions in birds and other winged creatures. As such flies cannot navigate as we think of it. They can remain airborne, land, take off again, but the lack of the gene basically means a fly is functionally trapped in any room the fly finds itself, unless it simply and coincidentally flies through an opening.
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