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6 Reasons to Love Cephalopods

6 Reasons to Love Cephalopods

© ozgur/Fotolia Among the invertebrates, cephalopod brains can’t be beat. These animals use their noggins (such as they are, albeit a bit squishy) to hunt and capture prey and to pry open clamshells. They also make time for play. In aquariums, octopuses have been known to leave their tanks to make mischief or dismantle aquarium equipment. Octopuses and cuttlefish have also been trained to navigate mazes. In the wild, veined octopuses have been observed collecting coconut shells to use as tents. They help us to better know ourselves. For decades, scientists have used cephalopod axons (the part of a nerve cell that transmits messages away from the cell body) for neurological study. The axons of

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