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My daughter's suggestion: we should ally with the octopi.
by daveguy 11y ago
My daughter's suggestion: we should ally with the octopi.
- CamperBob2 11y agoOctopi are really interesting creatures. They're said to be about as smart as a three- to four-year-old human. The disturbing part is, that's how long they live. What would a hypothetical twenty-year-old octopus get up to?
- nkozyra 11y agoA twenty-year-old octopus would either be: Switching majors, chasing tentacle and hanging in the quad -or- Getting their first $1B valuation as cofounder of an octocorn
- vosper 11y agoCan't believe you went with "octocorn" when "unipus" was there for the taking :D
- karmajunkie 11y agoor "octoporn"?
- marak830 11y agoThank you i needed that laugh today :-)
- solipsism 11y agoYour question seems to imply their intelligence increases at the same rate as a human and keeps doing so until they die. That would be very strange if it were the case. I'm guessing they reach their maximum intelligence well before they die, and then they plateau, like most other animals. So living 20 years would make it more experienced but not able to apply to MIT.
- mitchty 11y agoDon't some octopus die young too? Around 3-4 years for certain species. Well not young but more their life span isn't that long.
- mitchty 11y agoOk don't get why I'm getting down voted but I did recall right at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteroctopus_dofleini#Lifespan_and_reproduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteroctopus_dofleini#Lifespan... 3-5 years and they're the longer lived octopus.
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- vansteen 11y agoSome scientists think they are quite intelligent animal and they can easily learn. The problem is they have to learn everything by themselves. I read that octopus doesn't transmit any knowledge from one generation to the next one. The mother put some eggs in a cave, protect them and then die once the babies hatch out.
- hathym 11y agoI am sure it is yours :p