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How to get inside the head of an octopus?

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How to get inside the head of an octopus?

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

Why do octopuses, octopuses, squids (giant or not) fascinate us?

How to study these other forms of intelligence so different from ours.

Is it possible to get inside the head of an octopus?

Rebroadcast March 22, 2022

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Let's discover another form of intelligence, radically different from ours and which has always fascinated us: the intelligence of octopuses, octopuses, giant squids.

Is it possible to get inside an octopus's head, in its eye and even in its ultra-sensitive tentacles?

This is the bet of our guest ethologist Ludovic Dickel.

Internationally recognized specialist in cephalopods, after having worked on the memory of cuttlefish, he now studies the private life of the octopus.

With 

Ludovic Dickel

, Professor of Ethology for his book 

The Private Life of the Octopus,

published by Humensciences.

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