Sperm can count

[Analog]

The speed at which the calcium concentration in the cell changes controls the swimming behavior of sperm. They can calculate the calcium dynamics and react accordingly.

Sperm have only one aim: to find the egg. The egg supports the sperm in their quest by emitting attractants. Calcium ions determine the beating pattern of the sperm tail which enables the sperm to move. Together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden and the University of Göttingen, scientists from the caesar research centre in Bonn, an institute of the Max Planck Society, have discovered that sperm only react to changes in calcium concentration but not to the calcium concentration itself. Probably sperm make this calculation so that they remain capable of manoeuvring even in the presence of high calcium concentrations.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-sperm.html

 

[highland145]

But only can multiply and divide.

 

[TecHNooB]

I sure can!

 

[ElFenix]

anyone else find germans studying the behavior of sperm a little funny?

 

[destrekor]

anyone else find germans studying the behavior of sperm a little funny?

It's right up their alley [the one that smells of sex]