Research: Clever Octopuses
Tony Pinkevich for Untime The topic may seem totally random, but quite a few of my research topics need some context. In this case, I'm taking an Ocean Media class at university. We're assigned to a creative final project, which included the possibility of a creative story; of course, that caught my attention. Secondarily, browsing Tumblr, I came across a series of stories demonstrating how smart octopuses are, almost in a human capacity. I decided I really needed to know more about octopuses. Just bear with my dork levels for a couple of minutes. The above video gives us a front row seat to an octopus learning by observation - just like babies with walking, talking, or eating properly. In this case, at the Anton Dohrn Zoological Institute in Italy, two octopuses are watched in a super interesting study. The two octopuses are in adjacent tanks, able to see each other through a glass wall, and one of the octopuses (the Trainee) has experience with the experiment. A cra...