> “They have a curiosity,” he said. “For some other animals, it’s only about eating and making love. But I think octopuses have time to wander — time for hobbies.”
Book reco - Raph Koster's Theory of Fun - how Play leads to knowledge formation. Octopuses love to play.
Minor factual correction. Octopuses are not color blind, they only have a single photo receptor opsin but likely reconstruct color using chromatic aberration in combination with diffraction caused by their pupil shape to infer spectral properties of light (i.e. color). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1524578113
If octopi could live up to 20 years of age and have several births,if they can teach their young , we would be seeing another intelligent civilization in earth. It lead me to wonder are there ancient ancestors of octopi that are more intelligent or lives longer than octopi? Are there deep ocean unknown species of octopi exist hundreds of millions years ago and if they have a civilization Will we ever know since octopi rarely leave fossil due to their soft,boneless bodies? What if octopi were just less intelligence species of something more intelligent - like difference between chimps vs human?
Maybe octopi are Best candidate for Silurian hypothesis?
I have spent many days entertaining myself by feeding octopus, showing them shiny things, luring them out of the tidal pools and reef shelves I find them in .. I've seen them use bait to lure stupid white fish closer for attack, I've seen them playfully boop snorkellers on the mask and run away, as if to try to initiate a tag, or perhaps take the piss out of the clumsy beings from another realm that seem so incompetent in their eyes.
To me, they are among the most intelligent creatures on the planet, and I yearn for a day when we gain the ability to communicate with them. I think there will come a time that happens - they are just so darn smart.
Octopus are fascinating creatures who developed their intelligence quite separately from us (our last common ancestor was a flatworm). They have a very different nervous system to us - much more distributed. And they are an outlier in that pretty much all other creatures exhibiting high intelligence are long-lived and social, whereas octopus are generally short-lived and solitary.
Sadly, some people see them only as food. And there are proposals to intensively farm them in the EU. This seems particularly cruel for an intelligent, solitary animal. The intended method of killing them using cold water also seems cruel and inhumane.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 29.4 ms ] threadBook reco - Raph Koster's Theory of Fun - how Play leads to knowledge formation. Octopuses love to play.
I'm sure that octopus has a UFO kidnaping story.
Ep. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WepnzaNLLMI
Ep. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah8U0-fV6k8
Ep. 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0RLERl3TmU
Maybe octopi are Best candidate for Silurian hypothesis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8URdhSigzjs
To me, they are among the most intelligent creatures on the planet, and I yearn for a day when we gain the ability to communicate with them. I think there will come a time that happens - they are just so darn smart.
If you want to learn more about them, I recommend: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Soul_of_an_Octopu...
Also, the charming film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Octopus_Teacher
Sadly, some people see them only as food. And there are proposals to intensively farm them in the EU. This seems particularly cruel for an intelligent, solitary animal. The intended method of killing them using cold water also seems cruel and inhumane.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64814781