How Smart is an Octopus?

Hi, Mr. Nature here–along with a very clever octopus.

The octopus is resting inside a jar at the bottom of the aquarium, and a human comes along and screws the top onto the jar. You’d think that’d be pretty much escape-proof. But almost instantly, the octopus figures out that what he has to do is twist off the lid in the opposite direction; and in less than a minute, he gets it done. Off goes the top.

He then elects to stay in the jar a little longer. Maybe octopi have more in common with cats than we thought.

This is God’s stuff, the wonderful works of His hands. We don’t know why He made the octopus so intelligent, but you can be sure He knows. And maybe the octopus knows, too!

4 comments on “How Smart is an Octopus?

  1. How can anyone not believe in a Creator? Animals are created with instinctive wisdom. I’ve seen animals do some clever things in my day and I know that the cats I’ve lived with are amazingly smart. This doesn’t come from blind chance, it comes from an Intelligent Source, namely the One True God.

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