> Tons of insects use deception tactics No, read better: "[...] in a specific social context amenable to cheating 39 per cent of the time, while it was never

> Tons of insects use deception tactics No, read better: "[...] in a specific social context amenable to cheating 39 per cent of the time, while it was never employed in other social contexts" It's completely different from what simple insects do, here it entails that they understand the specific social context. Now you could reply to me that eusocial insects do that a lot, basing their behavior on cues like pheromones etc. To which I'd say: yes exactly, and that's why eusocial insects have the largest brains among insects. Cephalopod can solve amazingly difficult puzzles (unlike social insects) AND also have social skills. Which gives a big boost to how they score on intelligence evaluation. Moreover, one can argue that using pheromones is much easier than deducing the social context solely upon visual cues, because in insects pheromones already encode very specific meanings and are linked to hard-coded behaviors. Octupuses' social skills also a reason to how well they bond and interact with their human caregivers.