Word: octopus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...octopus is very...
...like such mammals as the dog and the monkey, which have brains built on the same plan as humans, even though they are much dumber. The octopus is not a mammal, or even a vertebrate. It is a mollusk, a sort of sophisticated clam. Its brain evolved independently-and the octopus in many ways is an independent thinker. Last week University of Cambridge Zoologist Martin J. Wells was preparing to publish a fascinating study on a far-out subject: the octopus and its intellect...
Snug Harbor. In Whangarei, N.Z., cold-sober Detective Val Edwards saw two greenish eyes staring up at him from inside a tide-carried gin bottle, was about to head for the nearest bar himself when the bottle broke and an octopus emerged...