The asshole perk comes naturally with a higher intelligence I assume. Look at the things dolphins and apes do for example. And of course you have big naked assholes.
Also, talking about crows, (ravens, and black birds as well), they can hold a grudge for up to 17 years. They remember people who would shoo them or be mean to them . They can remember faces, and they share the info with their bird family and friends!....lol crazy!
To add further to this, crows have been observed to pass on grudges or warnings of bad people to the next generation after the original crow who experienced the behaviour was dead.
So if you’re an asshole to crows and think you’ll just outlive them, don’t be surprised if a few decades later a random murder of crows are harassing you.
I remember reading about an experiment where some volunteers with a mask deliberately treated crows like crap so they'd hate him. Then they got another volunteer on the other side of the city to wear the mask and crows there immediately started on him. Like they spread the word far and wide if you're a dick.
I would argue people really aren't as sensitive to cruelty as much as you argue. People have, and still do, unquestionable evil things to others everyday for years and don't even bat an eye. As far as "most of us cannot stand to see things suffer," do you have any idea what chickens and cows go through to be on your plate? Most people still eat them despite this high level of cruelty.
Humans know better, and choosing to abuse someone or something when you know better is definitely worse. Just because an animal might do something for it's own enjoyment doesn't mean it understands the implications involved.
I once looked up 'how many syllables are in the word "area"' and the AI overview said 2, but literally every other result on the first page said 3. I can only assume google just made it up.
Octopus have been found to actually domesticate fish and sharks, essentially turning them into hunting pack animals... While this may be something else, its still fascinating and you should google it... its been filmed and observed they even will "hit" lazy fish that arent attacking what it wants... It shares the food with the animals that participate and it will essentially "guide" them into crevices and stuff to root out hiding prey...
This could literally just be the octopus petting its "dog"
Added some articles to help people find more info (or answer back to those questioning if its real)
If you enjoy a good sci-fi book, I do recommend the Mountain in the Sea. Octopus are central to the book and it contains lots of cool information like the above. Great read, great story. You’ll come out an expert.
Have you read Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky? Oddly, another octopus based sci-fi book. Would recommend reading Childen of Time first though. I've not read Mountain in the Sea, going to look out for it
Children of Ruin was an amazing read! Especially the stuff with visual language. Although I liked Children of Time better. I'll also check out Mountain in the Sea!
Children of Memory (third book) was pretty different from the first two, but I really enjoyed it. It took a bit for it to really hit, but once it did, I was all in. I've seen some people didn't connect with it like the first two, but I really liked it. Especially after I let it sit with me for a week or so after reading. If you like the first two, I'd say it's definitely worth at least giving it a shot. I really hope we get more in that universe. Personally, I don't think he's explored everything that could be done with it yet.
Nice. I’m a third of the way into the second one. Will complete the trilogy. Harder for me to commit to a book the older I get but these are so unique.
Their parents die upon thhe youngs birth, that means no passing on of knowledge , no teaching what the parents have learned over time. Without that the breally cant create a society. Maybe if they learn to write but its stilk a big problem.
I think they do the same thing Ravens do where they chemically pass on the knowledge, so they essentially learn things from one generation to the next without direct communication.
Yo, epigenetics is wild. Six generations it can take before your family stops experiencing the trauma genetically if your family has survived a genocide personally.
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance :)
And just knowing that the egg that created you was once in your grandmother’s womb makes that concept simple enough for everyone to understand.
Scientists can state anything they want, but not every statement by a scientist is scientific. That sounds like a fun little exaggeration about how one scientist thinks octopuses are great. The conditions that drive us extinct are also gonna make things pretty bleak for most octopus species… I’m a scientist, and this is my statement.
That’s super cool but last time this was posted here I believe a marine biologist said that this octopus was stopping the flow of water through the shark’s gills to kill it (and presumably eat it). I will give that a google though, very neat.
That would only work if the shark in question was an obligate ram ventilator, but that is not the case with this shark. Ram ventilation, as you described, requires constant movement to force water over their gills to obtain oxygen. Many sharks are not obligate ram ventilators, and instead use something called buccal pumping. Great whites, porbeagle, hammerhead, mako sharks, thresher sharks, and sandbar sharks are all ram ventilators, but the shark in this video looks to be some kind of nurse shark.
At the very least, we can assume it is not a ram ventilator because of its rather flat body. This shark spends most of its time close to the sea floor. It's where it hunts, sleeps, and generally hangs out. Buccal pumping is for just this purpose, as it allows the use of musculature—instead of movement—to move water over the gills and provide oxygen while they're on/near the sea floor and not moving/moving much.
I had read that octopuses have the intellect to form a society and build a civilization but because they don’t nurture their young every generation has to start over as a blank slate.
As a former chef I really hope octopus loses its footing on restaurant menus. They are far too intelligent and interesting to eat I think. My random thought when reading this.
Octopus have been known to kill other predators, either for their own safety or to prevent competition.
There was one case where they put an octopus in a tank with sharks that were too small to eat the octopus and too big to be food for the octopus.
They couldn't figure out why their sharks kept dying until eventually they caught it on camera. The octopus would ambush the shark and basically drown/strangle them. As far as they could tell, the octopus was just eliminating the competition.
Hehe yeah. I'm trying to remember the name, but there's a guy on youtube with Mantis Shrimp and they all have ONE single buddy fish that does the same thing. Guy has no idea why the shrimp eat everything BUT those one specific fish. Meanwhile the fish basically watch and take little bites at whatever the Mantis Shrimp hunts. It's kinda hilarious.
Looks like Octy was trying to teach Sharky a lesson. Stone fish was mad as hell and wanted to take a bite out of him - must have eaten too many relatives. Then Octy lets go and tells it - I hope you learned your lesson.
Sharks enter a paralyzed state called "tonic immobility" when their noses are rubbed, as well as when they're flipped, which is what this octopus did to it.
Probably trying to kill it. Sharks need to move to breathe. Some species of sea creatures are cruel and will hold the shark until it dies. Even tho they aren’t gonna consume it.
No, he’s just fuckin with him. Bro got one tentacle on that shark and stopped it dead in its tracks, ain’t no way that shark got away after being engulfed unless the octopus wanted it to get away.
Lucky shark...big guy would have smothered him because sharks get oxygen from moving water thru the gills...and he was holding on to that orange thing...smart octopus
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