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Why, scientists, why? Do you hate America that much? What other reason could there possibly be for the horrifying news that you are recklessly and foolishly giving Rubik’s Cubes to octopi?
Octopuses belong to the same family as slugs and snails, but scientists believe they are far more intelligent than their relatives. The researchers will give the 25 assorted creatures food and toys to play with, and record which limbs the animals use.
Claire Little, a marine expert at the Weymouth Sea Life Centre, explained: “Uniquely, octopuses have more than half their nerves in their arms and have been shown to partially think with their arms.
————-Previous work has shown them to have a capacity for learning and surprisingly complex memories. In 2003 an octopus in a German zoo wasrevealed to have learnt how to open jars of shrimps by copying staff. The five-month-old animal opened the jars by pressing its body on the lid and grasping the sides with its eight tentacles.
(above: your doom)
Today, Great Cthulhu’s minions are solving popular puzzles from the 1980’s; tomorrow, they’re building suitcase nukes to char broil us all for their Master’s lunch! Thanks a lot, you bunch of Commie Atheist Objectively Pro-Elder God liberals!
(link via Pharyngula)
