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Episode 410 - Ed Byrne

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The Science of Octopus

Spite is definitely a... It's part of our evolution, isn't it? I think once you've figured out how to un-strew a jar, the next step is learning spite. And messing with Rubik's cubes. Octopus species are definitely amongst the highest intelligence, if not the highest intelligence of non-human animals. So yeah, he thinks it's perfectly possible for one of them to bear a garage or just to be a bit of an arsehole. Or perhaps even return something to a store just out of spite. There has been a big story that happened in the last few weeks that we haven't had a chance to cover yet. This is the protein

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