Octopus

Book Review: The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

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Studies of animal intelligence have demonstrated the impressive cognitive abilities of certain animals: rhesus macaques, crows, bottlenose dolphins, border collies.  Recently, there is another animal gaining increasing recognition for its …

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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

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Peter Godfrey-Smith has a passion for cephalopods, the class of sea animals that includes the octopus, cuttlefish, and nautilus, among others. Animals that among the oldest creatures on this planet. Measured in numbers of …

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