Friday, March 2, 2018

Is The Octopus Really The Resourceful, Impish Genius Of The Invertebrate World?

Videos and anecdotes of octopuses escaping from predators (and research labs), manipulating tools (and researchers), and so on have made the clever cephalopods the internet's favorite animals after cat and dogs. In a notable bit of debunking (or party-pooping) - subtitled "It's not a crafty, soulful genius. It's dinner." - Daniel Engber argues that we shouldn't overestimate these mollusks.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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