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Octopuses and their relatives are a new animal welfare frontier − here’s what scientists know about consciousness in these unique creatures

  • Written by Rachel Blaser, Professor of Neuroscience, Cognition and Behavior, University of San Diego
imageA common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) off Croatia in the Mediterranean Sea.Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked. Squirt had notoriously...

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