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  2. Cephalopod intelligence - Wikipedia

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    A veined octopus eating a crab.. Unlike most other molluscs, all cephalopods are active predators (with the possible exceptions of the bigfin squid and vampire squid).Their need to locate and capture their prey has likely been the driving evolutionary force behind the development of their intelligence.

  3. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of ...

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    [10] Octopus eyes, too, look and work much like those of vertebrates; but there, Baer remarks, the similarities end. Cephalopods are "immensely foreign", with "a distributed sense of self" and a "lived reality" quite unlike human consciousness, a feature that, he notes, Godfrey-Smith calls "the most difficult aspect of octopus experience to ...

  4. Cephalopod - Wikipedia

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    The terrifyingly powerful Gorgon of Greek mythology may have been inspired by the octopus or squid, the octopus's body representing the severed head of Medusa, the beak as the protruding tongue and fangs, and its tentacles as the snakes. [172] The NROL-39 mission patch, depicting the National Reconnaissance Office as an octopus with a long reach

  5. Are you smarter than an ape? Meet Kanzi: Des Moines ... - AOL

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    He's determined, smart and outgoing; you can find him playing on the computer, watching an action movie or chomping on a celery stick in the greenhouse: He's Kanzi, the bonobo who plays Minecraft.

  6. Pain in cephalopods - Wikipedia

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    The octopus central brain contains 40 to 45 million cells. The brain-to-body mass ratio of the octopus is the highest of all the invertebrates and larger than that of most fish and reptiles (i.e. vertebrates). However, scientists have noted that brain size is not necessarily related to the complexity of its function.

  7. Common octopus - Wikipedia

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    The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) is a mollusk belonging to the class Cephalopoda. Octopus vulgaris is one of the most studied of all octopus species, and also one of the most intelligent. It ranges from the eastern Atlantic, extends from the Mediterranean Sea and the southern coast of England , to the southern coast of South Africa.

  8. How Ursula and 'The Little Mermaid' changed Disney history ...

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    Pat Carroll, who voiced Ursula in "The Little Mermaid," died Saturday at 95. The role defined Disney's queer canon — and helped launch a renaissance.

  9. List of squid-faced humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Quarrens, nicknamed "squid heads" in the Star Wars Universe, are aquatic humanoids from the planet Mon Calamari. Quintessons, tentacled alien beings with five faces, created the Transformers in the Transformers universe. Squid Girl, in the manga series of the same name, is a girl from the sea who has blue squid-like tentacles in place of hair.