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I share your enthusiasm for all of these questions .. as a fellow octopus enthusiast, are you familiar with the recently discovered octopus civilization? https
by aa-jv 1y ago
I share your enthusiasm for all of these questions .. as a fellow octopus enthusiast, are you familiar with the recently discovered octopus civilization?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopolis_and_Octlantis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopolis_and_Octlantis
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopus-city-observed-180964936/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopus-city-obser...
We may just simply be overlooking the obvious examples of their civilized behaviour in our rush to add them to our dining table ..
- v3ss0n 1y agoYes I had seen that not too long ago. Very amazing. That's why I wonder , what if we have a civilization of ancestor or sub species of Octopuses living deep where we haven't explored. Also looks like octopi are more space faring capable than human due to their body adapted to zero gravity situations.
- hermitcrab 1y agoDumbo Octopus have been discovered 7km deep: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-a-dumbo-octopus.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-a-dumbo-octopus.html Building a technological civilization underwater would be quite a challenge though!
- v3ss0n 1y agoSome already started to civilize. But what if theirs longer living octopi ancestors existed back in Cambrian period and had a functional civilization ? we will never know. Looking at what they are building at Octopolis and Octlantis they had reached what human did 200k years ago.
- aa-jv 1y agoThere has also been an 'octopus nursery' (social behaviour) discovered in the deep sea, which sort of re-wrote the rules on the 'solitary octopus' hypothesis: https://schmidtocean.org/scientists-discover-new-deep-sea-octopus-nurseries-in-costa-rica/ https://schmidtocean.org/scientists-discover-new-deep-sea-oc... I think there is a lot more to be learned about these wonderful creatures, and I avidly await all such discoveries ..