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Re:Elephants may be domesticating themselves by TrainedMonkey on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @12:13PM (#36046407)
And tool usage, turns out articulated appendages with articulated grippy sausages are effective, energy efficient, and can apply both power and precision.
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Re:Elephants may be domesticating themselves by kfrzcode on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @12:19PM (#36046485)
Maybe this is why Octopi are so efficient and smart? They forgo the hinges and just have a grippy sausage tube x 8
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Re:Elephants may be domesticating themselves by tourmalinetaco on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @02:45AM (#36054876)
Rather than grippy sausage tube, I believe the proper term would be sucky sushi rolls.

On a more serious note, it may be due to similar genetics to humans, specifically the LINE family of transposons.[0] Though, maybe they’re just aliens.[1]

[0] - https://www.livescience.com/jumping-genes-octopus-intelligen...

[1] - https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/123479-trending-science-...

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