"Partners"? "Companions"? More like slave drivers.
Octopuses seen hunting together with fish
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#33I love imagining how the fish are almost an extension of the way the octopuses think. Octopuses seem to have quite a bit of independent cognition in each of their arms, which are wrangled by the central brain. Now they're wrangling independent fish brains instead of octopus arm brains. Incredible
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#34Octopuses are much more intelligent than many give them credit for, but sadly I also love takoyaki (but then again, eating horse and whale is also culturally acceptable in Japan, one of the few countries that allow it; I've tried both as well, they're pretty good).
Most European countries do have horse meat.
There have been corruption scandals where a portion of beef being sold in the EU was partially horse meat (nearly always minced or packaged foods) would be difficult to do with a steak or at least much more difficult. So people may be inadvertently eating small amounts of horse without knowing.
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#35Seems like they're reading a lot into why the Octopus is punching those fish that are just hanging around them.
They're just flexin' for the cameras.
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#36I can't wait for OctoPunch, the turn-based combat video game! You play as the octopus, of course, and build your party from a selection of fishy characters, each with their own personality and special hunting skills.
I feel like I've played that game before.
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#38I used to love eating octopus, but since I've learned so much about their intelligence, I have not been able to bring myself to do so, anymore. I have the luxury of choice. There are many, in this world, that do not.
A female octopus will try to eat the male octopus, so the intelligence is not at empathy or morality levels.
To be fair, it's not at the empathy or morality levels of humans that a lot of people consider "smart", either.
As for the female octopus trying to eat the male octopus, did I ever tell ya the one about my ex wife? Huh? Huh? crickets
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#39aside: me after reading the headline: Shouldn't that be Octopii? But no! "The plural form octopii is doubly incorrect. Firstly, octopus derives from Greek, not Latin; its etymologically-consistent plural form is octopodes. Secondly, even if octopus were a second-declension Latin noun, the plural form would be octopi; in the correct plurals radii and gladii, with which octopii is analogous, the first ‘i’s are part of…
Thought exactly the same!
Re: Octopuses seen hunting together with fish
#40Octopuses are much more intelligent than many give them credit for, but sadly I also love takoyaki (but then again, eating horse and whale is also culturally acceptable in Japan, one of the few countries that allow it; I've tried both as well, they're pretty good).
I think you can even eat raw horse meat in France. https://www.vice.com/en/article/inside-frances-fading-love-a...
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