Squid MRI reveals they’re as intelligent as dogs

[shoredivr]

First squid MRI study shows brain complexity similar to dogs

Diving with them for years and this doesn’t surprise me. They can count and sort items too.

 

[Esprise Me]

Talk about damning with faint praise...

Just kidding. Dogs are great. Squid too. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Dusty123]

get in front of a brigade of cuttlefish and tell me they arent thinking

 

[Fibonacci]

I remember on a night dive when I shone my torch on a cuttlefish nestled in a rock crevice.

Rattled me realising it was a intelligent sentient being, clearly as annoyed at being disturbed as I would be if someone shone a powerful light through my bedroom window!!

 

[drbill]

Let's test this... Fetch!

 

[Damselfish]

Let's test this... Fetch!

If they won't fetch, does that make them more or less smart?

 

[Jcp2]

Maybe they are the cat equivalent of the underwater world.

 

[rddvet]

Makes sense. I’ve always said dog taste like calamari

 

[Doc]

And they are canabalistic, so there’s a nice mark in the + column.

My tabby, Gracie, relates that she finds them fairly bright.

 

[Steve_C]

They are talking number of neurons. Question is what are they used for. For dolphins and whales for example a big chunk is devoted to processing sonar. Squid for the cameo they can do. Dogs has more developed to sense of smell then we do. Intelligence as we usually think of it is different than just brain size.