Octopuses Are Ridiculously Smart
Octopuses are smart! They play with toys, pull off daring escapes, and are masters of disguise. But they're also smart in a lot of ways that the human mind ...
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Did you hear about the octopus that slipped out of its tank, into a drainpipe, and made a break for the sea? Or what about the cephalopod that figured out how to open those child-proof pill bottles? Which, let’s be honest, even adult humans have trouble with those sometimes. It’s fair to say octopuses are smart. But when we talk about the intelligence of other animals, we tend to fall into the trap of comparing them to humans -- testing for everything from the size of their brains, to qualities like emotions or learning abilities. But octopuses are very different from people, I don’t know if you’ve noticed. On the evolutionary tree, they are a long way off from us. And they’re probably way more complex than we might realize or understand. So your brain is in your head. And so ar...
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Did you hear about the octopus that slipped out of its tank, into a drainpipe, and made a break for the sea? Or what about the cephalopod that figured out how to open those child-proof pill bottles? Which, let’s be honest, even adult humans have trouble with those sometimes. It’s fair to say octopuses are smart. But when we talk about the intelligence of other animals, we tend to fall into the trap of comparing them to humans -- testing for everything from the size of their brains, to qualities like emotions or learning abilities. But octopuses are very different from people, I don’t know if you’ve noticed. On the evolutionary tree, they are a long way off from us. And they’re probably way more complex than we might realize or understand. So your brain is in your head. And so ar...
