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MDMA Makes Octopuses Friendlier And More Social

Alexander Bolano

Science trends September 24, 2018 DOI: 10.31988/scitrends.35243 (opens in new tab)

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Topics MDMA

Abstract

Despite stemming from phylogenetic lineages separated by 500 million years of evolution, octopuses and humans surprisingly have a lot in common. Of all the marine creatures, octopuses are extremely cognitively sophisticated and are capable of basic reasoning and learning. For example, a study in 2003 demonstrated that octopuses could learn how to crew off the

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