For a while, at least, engineer Mark Rober owned an octopus (as you'll see below, he later released it back into the wild). He tested the octopus's intelligence by building a maze with a series of challenges. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with these animals and even thought of becoming a marine biologist because of them. What the hell happened to me? Anyway, I can still appreciate a good octopus video:
A lot of people remark on the sadness of the octopus's evolutionary curse: it's gifted with an amazing intellect, but it has a life expectancy of barely two years. Imagine gathering so much knowledge throughout your life, then not living long enough to pass that knowledge along to your descendants. That feels almost like some form of hell.
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