Clever Creatures
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Octopus - Is That What They Do as Well?
In the victorian era, people exaggerated their idea of what intelligence was. But now we've kind of rejected that and more scientific approaches allow us to understand that the cleaner rat is actually much cleverer than we ever thought it was before. Octopuses are quite a lonely, weird figure like howard howwauld, an octopus kind of become al rete aint the oxtus. They mate at arm's length as well, ecause the males are like, ok, he you go see upn theye jus tar, like ret out sor the're a dangerous look. If you put them together in a tank, you'll only have one after a while
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