BRAIN NETS. “Then the researchers set the rats to a bunch of different abstract tasks—guessing whether it might rain from temperature and air pressure data, for example, or telling the difference between different kinds of touch-stimuli. The brain collectives always did at least as well on those tests as an individual rat would have, and sometimes even better.”
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/science-can-learn-wiring-monkey-brains-together/