{"id":168598,"date":"2023-07-29T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/were-one-step-closer-to-reading-an-octopuss-mind"},"modified":"2023-07-29T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:35:05","slug":"were-one-step-closer-to-reading-an-octopuss-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/were-one-step-closer-to-reading-an-octopuss-mind","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re one step closer to reading an octopus\u2019s mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-one-step-closer-to-reading-an-octopuss-mind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nine brains, blue blood, instant camouflage: It\u2019s no surprise that octopuses capture our interest and our imaginations. <a href=\"https:\/\/octonation.com\/how-octopuses-are-portrayed-in-science-fiction\/\">Science-fiction creators<\/a>, in particular, have been inspired by these tentacled creatures.<\/p>\n<p>An octopus\u2019s remarkable intelligence makes it a unique subject for marine biologists and neuroscientists as well. Research has revealed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceabc.com\/nature\/animals\/how-smart-is-an-octopus.html\">brain power<\/a> of the octopus allows it to unscrew a jar or navigate a maze. But, like many children, the octopus also develops an impish tendency to push the boundaries of behavior. Several aquariums have found octopuses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2016\/04\/14\/new-england-aquarium-has-its-own-octopus-escape-story\/3ShjEIp3tdIAqbLGPLtuSO\/story.html\">memorizing guard schedules<\/a> to sneak into nearby tanks to steal fish; meanwhile, marine biologists have discovered that wild octopuses will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/science-environment-55426583\">punch fish <\/a>\u2026 for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulethbridge.ca\/unews\/person\/dr-jennifer-mather\">Jennifer Maher<\/a>, a professor at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, there are a \u201cnumber of [different] types of learning [for octopuses]: cognitive tasks like tool use, memory of complex operations for future use, and observational learning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine brains, blue blood, instant camouflage: It\u2019s no surprise that octopuses capture our interest and our imaginations. Science-fiction creators, in particular, have been inspired by these tentacled creatures. An octopus\u2019s remarkable intelligence makes it a unique subject for marine biologists and neuroscientists as well. Research has revealed the brain power of the octopus allows it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}