Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
We’ve seen and read a lot about how intelligent octopuses are. That reputation has made them into the second most popular animal on the internet. Octopuses are quite clever, but should we stop eating them? That question is really two different questions. First, should intelligence be the standard by which we judge an animal to be edible or not, and second, is an octopus all that smart?
One’s desire to eat calamari may color one’s judgement on this. Daniel Engber talked to octopus expert Binyamin Hochner the octopus and the studies that have been done so far.The more I thought about the octopus, the more it disappointed me. I felt like maybe we’d been grading these creatures on a curve, such that even signs of their simplicity would be taken as amazing facts. Indeed, when Hochner and his colleagues first described the uncoordinated, wormlike movements of…
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