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14 - Octopuses – Mind in the Waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2018

By
Jennifer A. Mather  and
Michael J. Kuba
Edited by
Nereida Bueno-Guerra  and
Federica Amici
Nereida Bueno-Guerra
Affiliation:
Comillas Pontifical University
Federica Amici
Affiliation:
Universität Leipzig
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Why study the behaviour of octopuses?  They are known to be very intelligent, to have personalities, play and accomplish many learning tasks, as well as explore their environment. They may even have a simple form of consciousness. But they accomplish all this with a neural and behavioural system that is radically different from that of vertebrates such as mammals and birds and follows a general invertebrate Protostomian body plan. So if we want to study a different model of advanced learning, to know more about comparative cognition, octopuses are logical subjects. While field work is slowly increasing our knowledge of cephalopods, laboratory studies on these animals are crucial to expand our understanding and to uncover background information about them. Thanks to the new European laws granting Cephalopods a status like vertebrates in terms of legal protection, efforts to standardizes and improve keeping Cephalopods have recently increased. Researchers need to know how to keep an animal safe and healthy, as well as some ‘tried and true’ approaches for learning about it. This chapter will begin with three areas of background, and will discuss particular testing paradigms.

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Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition
A Comparative Guide
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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