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The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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Have you read War with the Newts?
This one is fiction but takes the nonfiction phenomenon above to wild proportions:)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@jiujensu @appassionato @bookstodon There's an indie game called HROT that has an episode called War with the Newts. It has all sorts of references but I never thought to look for an actual book (assuming that's the origin)!