Releasing a stranded octopus and it thanked me

https://www.ranker.com/list/the-15-smartest-animals-on-earth/analise.dubner

 

Octopuses are aliens. That’s the claim being made by a team of 33 researchers published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

They are not referring to aliens in a metaphorical sense, but literal aliens from outer space.

Since the paper was released on Sunday, a trickle of news coverage has turned into a torrent, with increasingly alarming headlines about octopuses and their extra-terrestrial origins.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-space-earth-cambrian-explosion-a8358631.html

 

A list of the fifteen smartest animals on earth and humans did not even make the list.

I think we can all list good reasons for that, I suppose.

 

Octopuses are fascinating creatures. Very smart and very alien.

 

Sometimes the chemistry just isn't there. Accept it and move on.

 

Maybe Baron is a leg man so finds them attractive. I can understand that.

 

I'm thinking maybe you arrived on the same spaceship.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/octopus-dna-origins/