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Tool use by octopus
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12-15-2009, 10:49 PM | #2 |
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Re: Tool use by octopus
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12-16-2009, 09:26 AM | #5 |
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12-16-2009, 11:33 AM | #6 |
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I want to know if it's the same octopus if it moves into a different coconut shell.
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12-16-2009, 11:34 AM | #7 |
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Such recent findings, in my opinion, put that at primate level, something I was quite skeptical of. But that's with only 1-4 year lifespans.
The most effective way to "increase their intelligence" may be as THS simple as making them live longer. That would be so wonderfully creepy. You don't have to finagle humanocentric forms of smarts if they can easily develop their own alien forms. A true alien rather than just modified humans and human thought processes "stapled" onto non-humans. |
12-16-2009, 07:51 PM | #8 |
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Okay, the second link worked. That was funny.
Did you guys read the link in that story, that led to the longer article about the mischievous behavior of octopuses? I really liked the one that snuck out of its tank at night, slithered across the floor to another tank, climbed in, ate the fish, climbed back out, and snuck back to its own tank. That article also discussed the notion that they may dream. That's certainly incorrect. Clearly, they spend part of their time communing with Great Cthulhu.
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12-16-2009, 08:28 PM | #9 |
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