Central nervous system
The organ that the brain envelopes.
What is the esophagus?
The bundles of nerves that control the movements of the arms.
What are ganglia?
What is color changing, or mimicry?
Being able to feel pain.
What is primary?
This is the original family of species octopus and other cephalopods evolved from.
What is mollusca or mollusk?
The largest lobes of the octopus brain.
What are the optic lobes?
The structure through which the arms of octopuses can communicate with each other.
What is the interbrachial commissure?
This octopus escaped from a New Zealand zoo in 2016.
Who is Inky?
The type of intelligence that rudimentary thought is.
What is primary intelligence?
The loss of this physical feature necessitated the development of a complex brain.
The part of the brain responsible for memory.
What is the vertical lobe?
The nerve that controls the arms of the octopus.
What is the axial nerve chord?
This characteristic constitutes an example of higher order processing.
What is behavioral plasticity or tool use?
The type of intelligence necessary to reflect or form a sense of self.
What is secondary intelligence?
The theory that posits octopuses developed intelligence to avoid predation.
What is the predatory pressure theory?
The lobes of the octopus responsible for visual and chemo-tactile memory.
What are the frontal and inferior vertical lobes?
The number of nerve cells in all the arms combined.
What is 350 million?
Amphioctopus marginatus does this to protect itself
What is collecting coconut shells?
The type of intelligence that the arms of octopuses have.
What is primary intelligence?
This hypothesis claims that animals develop intelligence for intraspecies communication.
What is the social intelligence hypothesis?
The mental model, not seen in the octopus, that serves as a map of the body. It is known as the homunculus in humans. For double jeopardy, the reason for the absence of such a structure.
What is somatotopic, and what is the lack of a skeleton?
The nerves use these to control muscles and suckers.
What are roots?
This octopus utilizes its striped appearance and acting abilities to mimic other animals, thereby avoiding predators.
Thaumoctopus mimicus
The significance of the phrase, "I think therefore I am.", and the originator of the phrase.
What is "the ability to postulate such a thought shows the ability to reflect upon the nature of being and thus proves conscious thought", and René Descartes?
The theory is that the need to find food was the reason for the development of octopus intelligence.
What is the ecological pressure theory?