Sunday, August 30, 2015

The Verge Review of Animals: the octopus

This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we've written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.

Are octopi aliens? Maybe! After all, they’re the most intelligent of all invertebrates. Like us, they can solve puzzles and use tools. They seem to exhibit individual personalities. But it goes further than that. Their entire bodies (or beings, if we assume they have some kind of sentience) have evolved to grasp the world in a wholly unique way. The have large brains, but their limbs have minds of their own. And they can sense light with their skin better than humans do.

Octopi seem like chthonian beings waiting to...

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