Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV

Whiteox writes about an Australian researcher named Renata Pronk, who has discovered that octopuses prefer HDTV. She recruited 32 gloomy octopuses from the waters of Chowder Bay. Previously, researchers have reported little success when showing video to octopuses. Miss Pronk's insight was that the octopus eye is so refined that it might see standard PAL video, at 25 fps, as a series of stills. She tried HDTV (50 fps) and her subjects reacted to the videos of a crab, another octopus, or a swinging bottle on the end of a string. A further discovery is that octopuses show no trait of individual personalities, even though they exhibit a high level of intelligence. It would certainly be possible to quibble about the definition of "personality" employed, and whether Miss Pronk had successfully measured it.

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This will help HUMANS

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How and why? Whats this project fund for?

Re:Correlation is not causation

[Shark]

Hehe, tell that to the man-made global warming gang (and watch my karma dive for merely mentioning it).

Seriously though, scientific measurement of personality in a creature so different from us humans probably would require a bit more than what they did. Can't fault them for trying though... Except perhaps in the 'what use do we have for such knowledge' way.

Re:Octopusses announce Reseacher has no Personalit

[rowp]

wow! From this we can conclude: 1) Your sense of humour is bizarre 2) You are sexually frustrated (we all know why) 3) Due to points 1 and 2 you must therefore be a social retard.