"You gained intelligence?"

I gotta go to work in 4hours and I'm over here learning about octopuses at 2 AM

just how intelegent are they?

So they can think with their arms and see with their skin? Now that's FUNKY.

I worked with a marine biologist studying cephalopods. He had one big tank for octopuses and one for crabs, their favorite food. One morning he came in and found that one of his octopuses had pushed the lid open on his tank, crossed the floor and climbed into the crab tank. Soon it became a common occurrence. He decided to give the octopus a mild shock when he found it in the crab tank to deter it. Within days he came in and found the octopus had still gone to the crab tank, eaten it's fill, but then climbed back to its own tank to avoid the shock.

The next time someone tells you, you need to get out of your shell; they’re offering you a path to evolution, intelligence and enlightenment.

> ditched the shell

The octopus has nine brains not really sure if it ever makes a mistake compared to a human where we make mistakes all the time

When you learn something so incredible and interesting that you feel like you need to go tell someone about it, you know you learned something good.

this is just insane. thanks for all these infos

I'm rooting for the octopus. Movies like to make them seem like monsters, but they really are very vulnerable...

Exam in 4 hours, have I studied? No. Have I learned about how octopuses are possibly the first intelligent being? Yes. Am I happy with my productivity? Hell mother f’ing yes.

I hope there is an updated version made. Octopuses and squid are now known not to be colorblind but just as their intelligence evolved differently than chordates their color vision is completely different. They only have a single type of photodetector and the fact that lenses are achromatic and have non-circular pupils and their visual system is much more complicated than ours so as to be able to extract color diffraction around the edge of the pupil and the achromatic distortions caused by lenses.

the coconut carrying octopus and the one playing with the scientist is so adorable.

The octopus is the most amazing creature on earth. Just incomprehensible.

changing colors and body textures is incredible but what amazes me even more is the speed at which the octopus does it…it’s freakin insane man

Octopuses: *sophisticatedly evolved to survive this long