Octopus Tool Use: The World's Smartest Invertebrate

facebook.com/ScienceReason ... Octopus Tool Use: The World's Smartest Invertebrate. The octopus is widely regarded as the worlds smartest invertebrate, and now a new study adds evidence to that claim. Those who work with cephalopods are not surprised; they know how intelligent these creatures are. In fact, we asked two of the Academys biologists about this finding. --- Please SUBSCRIBE to Science & Reason: • youtube.com/Best0fScience • youtube.com/ScienceTV • youtube.com/FFreeThinker • youtube.com/RationalHumanism --- Coconut-Carrying Octopus: Tool Use in an Invertebrate Scientists once thought of tool use as a defining feature of humans. That's until examples of tool use came in from other primates, along with birds and an array of other mammals. Now, a report in the December 14th, 2009 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, adds an octopus to the growing list of tool users. • Learn more: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091214121953… --- Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been dedicated to exploring, explaining, and protecting the natural world. It is the only place in the world to combine an aquarium, natural history museum, and planetarium all under one living roof. • www.calacademy.org/ .

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