Octopuses Like to Punch Fish

Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish by graderjs on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:12AM (#25526853)

I heard of an octopus in a marine biology lab that was able to work out that the feeder was controlled by an app on the postdoc's phone, and the cephalopod was able to sneak the phone out of the postdocs pocket, unlock it, and activate the feeder, then place the phone back, multiple times before the postdocs wised up.

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Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish by thatguy0900 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:42AM (#25526990)

This doesn't even make sense. Even if it connected the phone and the food it also figured out how to navigate an unfamiliar operating system? A good portion of humans get stuck on that

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Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish by mattkrause on Thursday December 24, 2020 @11:03AM (#25528627)

I can believe it’d learn to associate the phone with rewards—-and maybe try to grab it but the rest seems like a legend (how would it see the screen, which was presumably faced the human user).

That said, I worked with a macaque that learned how to trip a treat dispenser by shorting it out. Took me and an EE nearly two days to figure out how he was doing it.

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Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish by luma on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:16AM (#25526875)

That sounds pretty fantastical. Any chance you have a source?

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Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish by slyfocks on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:56AM (#25527050)

And then everyone stood up and clapped.

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Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish by webmobdev on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:20AM (#25526893)

I saw that in a cartoon.

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Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish by mistersquid on Thursday December 24, 2020 @10:15AM (#25528130)

Knocking at door

Woman, alone, at door: Who’s there?

Voice, behind door: Candygram…

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Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish by graderjs on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:57PM (#25533185)

Alright people, i admit, i made this up for this thread for fun. Interesting to see everybody's reactions....wow, fascinating!

Honestly tho, I do believe an octopus could learn to do this.

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Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish by takeiteasyy on Friday December 25, 2020 @03:56AM (#25535225)

not cool, dude.

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Re:Octopuses Like to Punch Fish by hackeraccount on Thursday December 24, 2020 @10:45AM (#25528465)

I'm not super experienced with cephalopods but I've me a postdoc or two and so I can say this seems believable to me.

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