Sentences with phrase «how octopuses»

One of the most surprising things that Scheel saw in the videos was how the octopuses used a piece of flotsam embedded in the silt at the study site, he said.

Now a team of researchers has figured out how octopuses go easy on their brains.

«Only by observing the context in which these behaviors occur in the wild can we begin to piece together how this octopus has evolved behaviors so radically different from what occurs in most other species of octopus.»

Understanding how the octopus's distributed brain interacts with its eight arms could, for example, help engineers design flexible, prehensile arms for robots, he said.

Albertin is interested in the way octopuses develop from single cells to fully - fledged hatchlings, and fellow study author Yan Wang, also of the University of Chicago, told The Post she'd be studying how the octopus brain controls complex behavior, especially in relation to mating and reproduction.

At Hebrew University in Jerusalem, researchers have studied how the octopus controls and coordinates its movements in spite of these enormous computational demands.

We love featuring all of our art friend's art in our Monday video, and we'd love to see how your octopus drawing turns out!

Here's a bit of a longer video without sound, showing you a little more of how the octopus moves around with it's little mobile home.

Not exact matches

How probable is it that we would recognize intelligence in some utterly alien form when it takes so much effort even to acknowledge that wolves or octopuses or bees have their own lives and thoughts?

After all how is the proof of highly intelligent life in the form of whales, ravens, octopi, or other primates put an end to religion here on earth?

Renee taught me how to like smoked trout, she opened my world to octopus and made me a preacher of the wonders of oysters.

We Love: How the giant octopus mural behind the bar, painted by Will Mitchell of Square Away Signs, totally makes the space.

Many years later Frank — one of the owners of Gullo Specialty Foods — wanted to follow his passion for octopus and started doing research on how to bring the product he loved such much to the US for everyone to enjoy.

They looked at me in disbelief for a moment and then the Pastor's wife came to my rescue, by stating she one told a table full of parishioners how she wanted to play with an octopus's tentacles, but It came out «testicles.»

From a blue bird in a tree, to an orange octopus in the sea, how different all their homes can be!

In this Pandahall article, I'll share a simple tutorial on how to make Halloween paper cup octopus crafts for kids.

And new research shows how genetic alterations in this odd - colored blood have helped the octopus colonize the world's wide oceans — from the deep, freezing Antarctic to the warm equatorial tropics.The iron - based protein (hemoglobin) that carries oxygen in the blood for us red - blooded vertebrates becomes ineffective when faced with low - oxygen levels.

«How can you tell deep - sea octopuses apart?

So Anderson, Seattle's lead invertebrate biologist, began to wonder: If keepers recognize octopuses as individuals, how much difference is there among individual octopuses?

The ultimate question, with octopuses as with other sentient creatures, may be how we should treat them.

On this week's show: Viking seafarers may have navigated with legendary crystals, and how to put an octopus to sleep

One enterprising designer, however, has figured out how to repurpose bacteria from rare glowing deep - sea octopuses for terrestrial illumination.

- Stephan Lewandowsky, James Risbey and Naomi Oreskes — Climate Change Is Not All Disaster and Uncertainty - William Skaggs — How could we recognize pain in an octopus?

Wild Things Sarah Zielinski How a dolphin eats an octopus without dying Dolphins in Australia prep some meals by tossing live octopuses until the creatures are safe to eat (SN Online: 4/25/17).

Biologist Binyamin Hochner and an international team of scientists wired the tentacles of five octopuses with electrodes to determine exactly how the creatures control the formation of a working replica of a three - jointed limb.

Enter the toy octopus: A team of researchers in California is exploring how the changing ocean chemistry affects a hermit crab's fight - or - flight response by simulating octopus attacks in the laboratory.

The researchers also looked at whether acidification altered the «boldness» of the crabs, or how long it took them to withdraw into their shells when attacked by a toy octopus held by a scientist.

As many mysteries as the octopus holds — its comprehensive camouflage, smart suckers, agile brain — its genome is surely holding many more (including how it can regenerate its arms — suckers, nerves and all).

This, too, is a striking feature of the octopus mind — striking in its familiarity and similarity to how we two - legged types make sense of our world.

Eating live octopus can be dangerous, but some dolphins in Australian waters have figured out how to do it safely, Sarah Zielinski reported in «How a dolphin eats an octopus without dying» for the Wild Things blog (SN Online: 4/25/1how to do it safely, Sarah Zielinski reported in «How a dolphin eats an octopus without dying» for the Wild Things blog (SN Online: 4/25/1How a dolphin eats an octopus without dying» for the Wild Things blog (SN Online: 4/25/17).

Given all this, the way to work out how smart octopuses are is to look at what they can do.

Gascuel, who helps to determine how many fish can be caught while avoiding population collapse, says that numbers of octopus and shrimp available to be taken in EU contracts with Mauritania, primarily by Spanish vessels, were already small.

He believes octopuses have known for millennia how to perform similar tricks with unoccupied bivalve shells, but have only recently discovered that coconut halves are a light and convenient alternative.

However, adds Provencio, it's questionable how much melanopsin can tell us about other species: The protein shares only 39 % of the genetic code of its closest known relative, an octopus opsin.

The fact that this rough intimacy can be part of non-lethal intercourse shows just how little we know about octopuses.

But research on one particularly freaky species shows us just how much we have left to learn about cephalopods: The larger Pacific striped octopus displays mating and hunting behavior unlike any other, suggesting that the routines we think of as being «normal» for an octopus might just be the only ones we've observed.

Now that this genetic information is available, researchers can start to answer questions about how the beautiful bodies and astounding brains of octopuses actually developed.

How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart?

We all know how smart octopodes (that's right, we're being pedantic) can be.

But how clever does an octopus have to be to live on land?

In This Plague of Days, we learn how a deadly octopus leads to Dayo's migration to England.

Players control an octopus posing as a human and the game is largely based around how well you can keep up the charade.

With these unique controls you'll be mowing the lawn, making coffee, clambering up a gigantic playground, and grilling burgers — and despite how difficult some of these tasks seem as an octopus, actually doing / attempting them are some of the most fun parts of Octodad!

YO: How awesome the octopus graphics look has nothing to do with the 3D though.

It's a wiggly octopus, this guy is a lot like our how to draw a squid.

We're learning how to draw a cartoon octopus.

His opulent, raw images of the art goddess appear in the September issue of W Magazine, along with idiosyncratic tributes by artists and friends (Wendy Williams remembers a dinner of octopus and alcohol - soaked Klondike Bars, and Tracy Emin talks about how men peak early while women come and come).

When Shimabuku caught an octopus at Akashi and took it on a tour of Tokyo, was he thinking of Joseph Beuys» performance «How to Explain Pictures of a Dead Hare»?

«It's important for us to know the genome, because it gives us insights into how the sophisticated cognitive skills of octopuses evolved,» says neurobiologist Benny Hochner who has studied octopus neurophysiology for 20 years.

Inky came to the aquarium via a fisherman who caught him in a crayfish pot, and while the center is not actively looking for a replacement — I mean really, how can you replace an octopus like Inky?