Do octopuses belong to the select group of animals that possess the ability of visual self-recognition? How would an octopus react to a moving picture of itself?
Even though our previous mirror tests with other octopuses have partially addressed these questions, we were curious to see how an octopus would react to video footage of itself.
For the sixth episode of our Octopus Reacts series, we recorded a short video of our octopus and soon after that, we showed this video to the octopus.
We found the octopus’ reaction highly interesting, and we hope that your insight will help us decode this octopus’ strange behavior.