I'm making this thread for two reasons:
1) I don't think there are any TONMO threads dedicated to social behavior in octopuses besides the posts for specific articles
2) My non-scientist friend is in a class which is more or less on non-human sapience/culture (the class has a lot of Jane Goodall studying primates type things) and I convinced him to write his paper on octopuses! I pointed him to the Jervis Bay octos* (there's a new paper out on them, yay!) and O. chierchiae but was wondering if there were other examples of social behavior in octos?
Also wondering if O. laqueus actually has been observed sharing dens as I can't find any reliable accounts of it?
*to clarify I did point out that O. tetricus are generally solitary and this is unusual
I am tagging based off what I've seen on TONMO - please tag relevant people or tell me if I've tagged the wrong people haha
@pgs @jugglematt @mucktopus @Neogonodactylus @Thales
1) I don't think there are any TONMO threads dedicated to social behavior in octopuses besides the posts for specific articles
2) My non-scientist friend is in a class which is more or less on non-human sapience/culture (the class has a lot of Jane Goodall studying primates type things) and I convinced him to write his paper on octopuses! I pointed him to the Jervis Bay octos* (there's a new paper out on them, yay!) and O. chierchiae but was wondering if there were other examples of social behavior in octos?
Also wondering if O. laqueus actually has been observed sharing dens as I can't find any reliable accounts of it?
*to clarify I did point out that O. tetricus are generally solitary and this is unusual
I am tagging based off what I've seen on TONMO - please tag relevant people or tell me if I've tagged the wrong people haha
@pgs @jugglematt @mucktopus @Neogonodactylus @Thales
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