{"id":2173126,"date":"2024-03-04T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2173126"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T13:53:20","slug":"from-opening-jars-to-solving-complex-tasks-5-videos-showing-the-surprising-problem-solving-abilities-of-octopuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/from-opening-jars-to-solving-complex-tasks-5-videos-showing-the-surprising-problem-solving-abilities-of-octopuses\/","title":{"rendered":"From Opening Jars to Solving Complex Tasks: 5 Videos Showing the Surprising Problem-Solving Abilities of Octopuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder how smart octopuses are? These eight-armed sea creatures are smarter than you think. From opening jars with ease to tackling tricky tasks, they continue to blow our minds. Check out the videos below to see just how smart these marine geniuses are!<\/p>\n<h2>1. Opening Jars<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"Genius Octopus Can Open Jars | Octopus In My House | BBC Earth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-KS-yI8VTf0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Earth\/Youtube<\/p>\n<p>This genius octopus is showing a high level of intelligence. Watch as this one opens not just one, but many, jars. The video also reveals that octopuses do not just have intelligence in their heads \u2013 they have it throughout their arms as well.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Octopus vs Underwater Maze<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"Octopus vs Underwater Maze\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7__r4FVj-EI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: Mark Rober\/Youtube<\/p>\n<p>Youtuber Mark Rober made a huge nine-part maze for his pet octopus, Shashimi. Throughout the video, Shashimi continues to blow Mark\u2019s and the viewers\u2019 minds.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Twist Top Bottle<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"Octopus Intelligence Experiment Takes an Unexpected Turn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dKWssIQplw8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: Octolab TV\/Youtube<\/p>\n<p>This experiment took an unexpected twist when the octopus decided to rip a twist-top bottle open rather than twist it off! This not only shows the intelligence of the creature but also shows their strength.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Escape Room Challenge<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"Octopus Escape Room Challenge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/303S9kOxd0c\" width=\"6408\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: Octolab TV\/Youtube<\/p>\n<p>Octopuses are known as nature\u2019s escape artists \u2013 and this one is no different. This four-part escape room challenge was easily beaten by the octopus.<\/p>\n<h2>5. Rubik\u2019s Cube<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"Rubik\u2019s Cube World Record Is Beaten By Octopus!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HUXYnjMpQ8k\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: visitSEALIFE\/Youtube<\/p>\n<p>Bev, the National Sea Life Centre Birmingham\u2019s Giant Pacific Octopus, has shown an amazing new skill. She completed a difficult Rubik\u2019s cube in just 5.24 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Octopuses might live in the ocean, but they\u2019re not just your average sea creatures. The videos above reveal a whole new side: they\u2019re geniuses of the underwater world.<\/p>\n<p><i>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/animals\/5-videos-showing-the-surprising-problem-solving-abilities-of-octopuses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">article<\/a> by Trinity Sparke was first published by One Green Planet on 31 December 2023. 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These eight-armed sea creatures are smarter than you think. From opening jars with ease to tackling tricky tasks, they continue to blow our minds. Check out the videos below to see just how smart these marine geniuses are! 1. Opening Jars Source: BBC Earth\/Youtube This genius octopus is showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":2201619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/shutterstock-2200422577-e1703805252430.jpg?w=750&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"From Opening Jars to Solving Complex Tasks: 5 Videos Showing the Surprising Problem-Solving Abilities of Octopuses","footnotes":""},"categories":[6985,5],"tags":[7175,11863],"class_list":["post-2173126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wildlife","tag-octopus","tag-octopuses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}