CaptFish;185008 said:
What makes you come to that conclusion?
Not a conclusion but just a thought speculated amongst other organisms. Though other aquatic animals have a very different way of functioning in comparison to cephalopods, there are similarities of behaviors that can be pointed out in a wide group of wild organisms. I have kept wild caught aquatic organisms before that do exhibit this kind of behavior. I did not do any enrichment but, the organisms did show a very similarity to the concept in my last post. This has also been pointed out during research studies from time to time on birds, and specifically dogs. The reason why I connect this to other animals is because personalities aren’t just present in octopuses and humans. It is present in a considerable amount of other organisms, aquatic and terrestrial. Now when I talk about this “personality traits” of octopuses on being interactive with non food related enrichment and food related enrichment I still consider other causes that could have carried out this response. Such as sexual maturation, age, and experiences and hardships an organism has faced before that may have influenced the decision making of the octopus in present, attention span on non food related enrichment, etc.
Also do consider the word choice of likely, it was a thought not as a conclusion
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Post #6/ These are more
likely to be common factors shown by many wild caught octopuses
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Also as for examples of this behavior I think that it was described in
Wood, James B., Jennifer A. Mather, and Roland C. Anderson. Octopus: the Ocean's Most Intelligent Invertebrate. 1st ed. Portland, Oregon: Timber, 2010. Print.