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Octopuses think with their tentacles and bully researchers for no clear reason

Putting the odd in cephalopod

How was your Christmas? Mine was lovely, in no small part because I had enough spare energy to devote some on expanding my knowledge of octopuses. I should have done this many years ago, because it turns out they're 20,000 times more interesting than I realised. And I already knew their tentacles have thoughts.

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Matt Cox: Once the leader of Rock Paper Shotgun's Youth Contingent, Matt is an expert in multiplayer games, deckbuilders and battle royales. He occasionally pops back into the Treehouse to write some news for us from time to time, but he mostly spends his days teaching small children how to speak different languages in warmer climates.
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