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Reply to lordsummerisle (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 28, 2018, 11:51 PM

Jun 2018

Plus this:

Here's Otto, the octopus that figured out how to put the 2000 watt annoying light above his tank out; yet more proof that octopuses have higher intelligent than people have given them credit for.

"Once we saw him juggling the hermit crabs in his tank, another time he threw stones against the glass damaging it. And from time to time he completely re-arranges his tank to make it suit his own taste better - much to the distress of his fellow tank inhabitants."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96476905

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3328480/Otto-the-octopus-wrecks-havoc.html

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