Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mehrkam, Lindsay R.

Titel

A behavior-analytic approach to understanding octopus “mind”

Ist Teil von

• Animal sentience, 2019-01, Vol.4 (26), p.1

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Humane Society of the United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Mather makes a convincing case for octopus sentience based on a lot of evidence of their complex learning capabilities. It should follow from Mather's findings that these intelligent invertebrates are worthy of welfare considerations, just as vertebrate species with similar capabilities are. I provide a complementary environment-behavior analysis of how we might understand the world of the octopus more straightforwardly, borrowing from Mather's examples, to show how to promote opportunities for complex learning and species-typical behaviors in the octopus.