Octopuses use mirrors to find food, showing advanced spatial reasoning

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Octopuses can use mirror reflections to locate hidden food, a behavior previously seen only in vertebrates. Researchers trained octopuses to find a crab using a mirror, demonstrating an ability to understand reflected images and spatial reasoning. This finding suggests convergent evolution for problem-solving in navigation and spatial representation between invertebrates and vertebrates.


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