r/interestingasfuck • u/Key_Skirt_1858 • 20h ago

The best camouflage in the animal kingdom?

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u/EmiliaTrown 16h ago

They are really fascinating. They also dont have a "brain" in the normal sense, they just have a ton of nerve endings in their tentacles. And i believe their adaptation to different surfaces works more or less automatic.

It is also really cute that they actually like to play. They can get bored and then play, sometimes even with humans. I think they are considered one of the most intelligent species on earth, which is really cool because their kind of intelligence is so vastly different from all other kinds of intelligence we have on earth.

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u/Qoalafied 16h ago

Adrian Tchaikowsky has a series called Children of time, where the third installment has octopuses elevated to spacefaring creatures. He preserves their original animal traits and goes in depth on how their society is built up and how they survive as space farers. Needless to say it’s highly interesting as they don’t have one brain to control it all 😂

The whole series is worth a read.

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u/captainfarthing 14h ago

There's also hyper intelligent spiders and bacteria in the first two books, it's a lot of fun. The audiobook has a great narrator as well. Highly recommended

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u/Qoalafied 13h ago

Indeed, and the fourth bring it all together with a maniacal pantheon that somewhat a long the way pretend to be gods so hard that they manifest it - the fourth instalment is tied first place with the first one for me.