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Octopuses have been observed using tools, and we're very quickly determining that they are extremely intelligent. If they had longer lifespans and weren't solit
by deadmetheny 9y ago
Octopuses have been observed using tools, and we're very quickly determining that they are extremely intelligent. If they had longer lifespans and weren't solitary, who knows what they may have become.
- Asooka 9y agoGiven that they breed fast, I'm a bit surprised nobody has tried to breed sociable octopuses.
- piercebot 9y agohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopus-city-observed-180964936/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopus-city-obser...
- robotbikes 9y agoI think there have been a few instances where they found enough octopi clustered that they were shown to be sociable. This article is about the Octopi cities https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopus-city-observed-180964936/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopus-city-obser...
- pavel_lishin 9y agoNot that sociable: http://metazoan.net/55-octlantis-media/ http://metazoan.net/55-octlantis-media/ > Octlantis is not in any sense a city. It is not a cooperatively built and maintained structure, designed to allow many individuals to live in close quarters. It is an unusually dense collection of individual dens, most of them dug into a bed of scallop shells.