California has recently enacted a groundbreaking law that bans both the farming and sale of farmed octopus products. Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 27, 2024, this legislation, known as the Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act, aims to address ethical and environmental concerns …
NEWS AND OPINION: This is about the ethics of marine wildlife farming, specifically the ethics of farming an intelligent, sentient creature which is what the octopus is. And the experts say that it is impossible to farm the octopus humanely because of their intelligence and …
The words in the title are those of Justin Webb, 41, on Twitter. He is a charity worker and vegan. He took a photo of a baby octopus wrapped up in cellophane, for sale for 36p and posted it on Twitter saying: “36p for a …
When I saw this photograph I thought of another similar situation. It concerns a Netflix documentary called My Octopus Teacher, which I have not seen. It documents a year spent by filmmaker Craig Foster forging a relationship with a wild octopus in a South African …
In a highly unusual video captured by Lance Karlson, a geologist, the viewing public can see the angriest octopus attacking him. He was left bruised and confused. The attack occurred at Geographe Bay near Margaret River about 155 miles south of Perth. There are actually …
We know that octopuses are highly intelligent creatures and to that knowledge we can add a new discovery, namely that the eight tentacles of an octopus respond independently of the octopus’s brain and eyes to recoil from light as it signifies potential danger. In a …
A study led by Eduardo Sampaio, a researcher at the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre in Lisbon, discovered that octopuses have a tendency to punch collaborating fish in a bullying manner when hunting and they are not sure why. The octopus has the largest brain …
