How Smart is an Octopus Really? - Dr. Piero Amodio - #53
Piero Amodio is a comparative cognition researcher and staff scientist at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples, Italy, where he leads work on the behaviour and intelligence of octopuses. Born in Italy, he studied animal behaviour in Florence and anthropology in Zurich before earning a PhD in psychology at the University of Cambridge under Nicola Clayton, working across octopuses, cuttlefish, and members of the crow family. He is a National Geographic Explorer and appears in the docuseries Octopus, where he argues for caution against reading human-style intelligence into these animals…
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