Captive Octopuses Get Bored Unless You Give Them Puzzles

Over at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco , the Steinhart Aquarium biologists say that it ’s not enough to keep octopuses feed and healthy . The highly - intelligent cephalopods get infelicitous if they do n’t have thing to do with their judgement .

As you could see in this deadly cute TV from the aquarium , there are many ways to keep octopuses engaged . Biologists give them toys and puzzles – the animals are especially fond of unscrew jars to get at intellectual nourishment inside . Though devilfish are generally not social animal , many cogitation have offered compelling evidence for their smartness : Theyuse tools ; they canextemporize brilliantly when attempt to shroud ; and a late paper even suggests that theyengage in warfare . Also , in a nerveless alien detail , they have distributed intelligence . Octopus armscan call back independently of each other .

It ’s hard for humans to let in that other animals might be as voguish as we are . But at least at Cal Academy , the biologists infer that octopuses are so level-headed that caring for them means keeping their head as busy as their body .