A boy plays at the feet of a statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela on Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)

Residents ride on top of an overcrowded “Jeepney”, a locally manufactured public transport, along a highway in Mogpog town on Marinduque island in central Philippines April 8, 2015. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)

Fans of Croatia are seen during the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Round of 16 match between Croatia and Spain at Parken Stadium on June 28, 2021 in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo by Antonio Bronic/Reuters)

A Shi'ite Muslim woman bleeds after she was cut on the forehead with a razor during a religious procession to mark Ashura in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon on August 19, 2021. (Photo by Aziz Taher/Reuters)

A student walks past on the broken bridge hit by a river overflow following floods in Jaranih village, Central Hulu Sungai, South Kalimantan province, Indonesia on November 17, 2021. (Photo by Bayu Pratama S./Antara Foto via Reuters)

An Egyptian carries bread tray over his bicycle, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, November 19, 2016. Egypt is currently suffering an acute foreign currency shortage because of the decimation of its lucrative tourism industry, double digit rates of inflation and unemployment. (Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)

A U.S. Army crew chief flying on board a CH-47F Chinook helicopter observes the successful test of flares during a training flight in Afghanistan, March 14, 2018. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Gregory Brook/Reuters/U.S. Air Force)

Once upon a time a myth was born that insects, unlike animals, are just a machines that not capable of learning and survive only based on their instincts. That myth has become the widespread opinion. Of course, this opinion is indeed erroneous, like many other widespread opinions. Let us try to find out which part is a myth and which part is true.