Squid Are Among the Most Intelligent Ocean Creatures. Climate Change Might Shrink Their Brains
Squid are among the scholars of the deep. Distributed across all of the world’s oceans, the 375 squid species can navigate mazes, cooperatively hunt, communicate via color change, recognize individual humans, and learn from past experiences—such as remembering how to escape from an enclosure. Neuron by neuron, squid have brains about as complex as that of dogs, and along with octopuses and cuttlefish, are the most intelligent invertebrates in the world. But the squid brain is in danger.
According to a new study presented at the Society for Environmental Biology conference in Florence, Italy, in early July, as levels of oceanic carbon dioxide grow greater, the brain of at least one species of squid is growing smaller.
3 comments:
I'm always amazed that there are people who spend their lives on issues like this...
Who pays them, who listens to them and makes decisions, who thinks it's so important when real issues are in demand for action, not someone farting around in a laboratory.
Scrobs - I'm not sure where the funding comes from, but nowhere reputable would be a good guess.
When I went out on a trawler as a lad, the little squid were of no commercial interest so we threw them back in. That's why we would often be followed by seals. Charming chaps, on the whole.
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