They finally videoed the lab overnight and found the octopus repeatedly escaped its tank and sprayed water on the bulb to burn it out.
You read that right and I did not make it up.
I believe it. Octopuses are very smart and don’t deserve to be eaten!
Did you hear the mindblower a month ago about an aquarium— or university studying octopi —in which scientists came into the lab every morning only to find the bright overhead light burnt out. Every day.
They finally videoed the lab overnight and found the octopus repeatedly escaped its tank and sprayed water on the bulb to burn it out.
You read that right and I did not make it up.
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I am particularly fond of octopi, octopise. octopuses and the very funny ways they try to control their environments when they live “with” us. I often wonder who, exactly is the smarter group. I doubt we will survive on earth as long as they continue in the oceans.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-octopuses-smart/...and many more articles on octopuses.
It is clear cephalopods are amazingly smart especially since they brains are huge compared to their spine which they don’t have...and they are curious..I wonder how that one figured out how to turn off the light in the lab at night? Or turned on the spigot and released tons of water onto the new aquarium’s ecologically sensitive floor? I have heard of none being kept in a home marine aquarium...they always get out...and die, sigh.
I think they are absolutely marvelous creatures and incredibly cute when the size of a flea!!