Can the octopuses become smarter than humans?

Last year, researchers dropped a cage with bait in the waters of False Bay in Cape Town, to search for creatures that lived off the coast of South Africa. However, they didn't expect that an invertebrate not only stole food, as the entire cage.

This is just one example of the amazing intelligence of these animals, scientists are discovering to be more advanced than initially thought.

A scientist stated Max Knoblauch, Pacific Standard, that the intelligence of these creatures can evolve much more over time. "The cephalopods manipulate clearly objects, tools," said Dr. Russell from Hofstra University in New York. "They don't build things in addition to shelters, but it is conceivable that, with time, and by other factors, this can happen."

In addition to build shelters, mazes, and solve problems, the octopuses demonstrated being able to store short-term and long-term memories. In laboratory experiments can be quickly trained to distinguish different shapes and patterns. Certain controversial studies believe that octopuses learn through observation.

In some countries, octopuses are among the list of experimental animals on which surgery may not be performed without anesthesia. In the United Kingdom, for example, the laws of animal trials ahead us as "creditable invertebrates", applying them protections that are not extended to others of the same species.

In an article from The Conversation, Clint Perry, of Macquarie University in Australia, said that we have to stop thinking in humans as the apogee of intelligence. "Humans may not be as smart as we thought."

"More and more research is showing that the logic apparently complicated than our intellect uses to routinely solve problems depends a lot of shortcuts as heuristics". "This is very close to what we consider instincts," says Dr. Perry.

This means that creatures like the Octopus, one day, become smarter than humans? "We should remind us that we are animals living in a world with other animals. All species are different from each other. But we're not so different, "says the guardian.

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