Octopuses Choose Favorite Tentacles

Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 10:49 in Psychology & Sociology

There are plenty of times when a third hand would be helpful, but solving a Rubik's Cube isn't really one of them. Despite that, a study in England has been giving 25 octopuses a chance to use all eight of their arms to fail miserably like the rest of us. The research isn’t actually focused on some savant octopus solving the game but rather with which arm they choose to fail. read more

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