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Anonymous Coward User ID: 17119454 United States 08/20/2012 10:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Intelligence AND instinct. And there's nothing wrong with either. Only the human animal frowns upon and resists his own instinct, yet at the same time frowns upon intelligence by attributing the "original sin" to the pursuit of knowledge. The station in the line of sentient species is also sadly locked for the great octopus. You see the octopus father abandons the mother, she alone must defend and blow on the eggs. She dare not leave them, even to eat! No one ever taught her this. These are the actions of her instincts and one of the greatest demonstrations of mothering in the animal kingdom. Invariably, she dies before they hatch :( With no mother or father and in a solitary life, everything every octopus will ever know, they must learn on their own from scratch. It's what holds them back as one of the greatest problem solving species... they have no legacy, no wisdom or survival skills passed on from one generation to the next and they avoid one another unless mating. Even ants have natural teachers. Imagine the intelectual might of the Octopus, if only they inherited more than instinct. Intelligence is more cognitive and has greater value than instinct, but alas the example: how instinct can arrest thee. |
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