A team of scientists from New York has documented a specimen of octopus who seems to have nightmares when reliving a trauma from the past. The images took place at Rockefeller University, when the researchers found the animal with its arms inside a tube.
This unusual behavior caught the attention of the researchers, who reviewed the footage and saw the animal expel ink while it slept. At all times, it seemed that he was defending from a predator… but the truth is that he was in an aquarium.
‘New Scientist’ picks up the case of this Octopus insularis recorded in Florida. It is named after one of the ‘heptapod’ aliens from the movie ‘Arrival’, which quickly adapted to captivity and began sleeping outdoors, rather than in a den like octopuses do in the wild.
The animal died in 2021, but this night terror can help to understand the mind of these animals.
Source: Lasexta
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