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BRAINY BUNCH The intelligence of octopuses is well documented. What is perhaps less well known is where this intelligence comes from. Naturalist Georgina Jones explains some theories around these fascinating creatures, including the role their relatively short lifespans play.
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SEA RESCUE AUTUMN 2021
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CTOPUSES ARE SUPERBRIGHT. There’s plenty of evidence of their intelligence too. Take the aquarium where sharks kept turning up dead and partially eaten in the mornings. As it happened, the octopus sharing their tank was using its camouflage skills and the exhibit’s rocks to ambush the sharks, wrestle them belly up to paralyse them, and then eat its fill. Octopuses in captivity have been shown to be capable of working out how to unscrew lids,
