有哪些看似不相关的动物有很像人类的地方？
What seemingly unrelated animal has something very humanlike?
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西海岸的一个海洋实验室里有一只章鱼，它会：
(1)取下鱼缸的盖子；
(2)爬出鱼缸，在地板上滑过，爬到一个装着美味的、稀有而昂贵的海螺的鱼缸里；
(3)打开鱼缸，爬进去吃掉蜗牛；
(4)爬出来，把蜗牛缸盖好；
(5)回家，关上门，装作没事儿人。
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What seemingly unrelated animal has something very humanlike?
有哪些看似不相关的动物有很像人类的地方？
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There are some good reasons to believe that octopii are aliens from another planet. Research shows that the octopus has 10,000 more genes than humans.
They can distinguish between colors as well as open screw-top jars and child-proof bottles.
There was an octopus at a sea lab on the West Coast that would (1) remove his tank cover, (2) climb out of his tank and slither across the floor to a tank that held yummy rare and expensive sea snails (3) open their tank, climb in and have a Snail All You Can Eat, (4) climb out and replace the snail tank cover, (5) go back home, close the door, and play it cool.
The director of the sea lab warned his employees twice, “Whoever is stealing snails will be fired immediately!”.
Then they set up a video camera …
Jon Bourgetti, 攻读历史学学士学位
有一些很好的理由相信章鱼是来自另一个星球的外星人。研究表明，章鱼的基因比人类多1万条。
它们能区分颜色，也能扭开瓶盖和防孩童误触的瓶子。
西海岸的一个海洋实验室里有一只章鱼，它会：
(1)取下鱼缸的盖子；
(2)爬出鱼缸，在地板上滑过，爬到一个装着美味的、稀有而昂贵的海螺的鱼缸里；
(3)打开鱼缸，爬进去吃掉蜗牛；
(4)爬出来，把蜗牛缸盖好；
(5)回家，关上门，装作没事儿人。
海洋实验室的主任两次警告他的员工:“谁偷蜗牛，谁就立刻被解雇!”
然后他们架起了摄像机……
“April 2016, … Inky the octopus's great escape from the National Aquarium of New Zealand. The lid of Inky's tank was left ajar at night, and he took advantage of this by climbing out, walking across a room to a drain opening, and squeezing down a 160ft (50m) pipe to the open ocean.”
An octopus in the ocean was observed catching snails, taking them to a grotto, then moving stones to block the entrance so they were captured for later dining like Hansel and Gretel.
“2016年4月，新西兰国家水族馆的章鱼大逃亡。晚上，Inky的水箱盖半开着，他利用这一点爬了出来，穿过一个房间，走到排水口，挤下一条160英尺(50米)长的管道，汇入大海。“
人们观察到海洋中的一只章鱼捕捉蜗牛（的方法）——把它们带到一个洞穴里，然后移动石头堵住洞口，这样它们就被捕获，并可以晚点再享用了。
链接：《为何章鱼是海洋里的天才》
Snail mommies tell that story to snail babies to stop them from wandering away.
蜗牛妈妈会把这个故事讲给蜗牛宝宝听，防止它们乱跑。
“Running snails,” interesting concept.
“跑动的蜗牛“，有趣的概念
Ever owned a 9 month old crawler?
Those little squirts can fly when they want.
见过9个月大的爬虫吗？
只要它们想就可以飞（奔）。
Not only are octopi maritime Einsteins, they are extremely tasty! What’s not to like? Seriously though, octopoid intelligence is simply amazing. Their evolutionary path must have been labyrinthine.
The sea snail tale is riotously funny. What a burglar! Give that critter a prize. “Hansel and Gretel”?!? You really need to do a lot more writing at Quora. This place is so bereft of humor as to be a desiccant.
章鱼不仅是海洋里的爱因斯坦，而且它们非常美味!为什么不喜欢呢?不过说真的，章鱼的智能简直太惊人了，它们的进化之路一定错综复杂。
这个海蜗牛的故事非常有趣。厉害的小偷!给那个小动物一个奖品吧。
I believe they are at least one of the animals we should not be killing. This group includes elephants, whales, dolphins and porpoises. This is a short list, there are more.
我相信它们至少是我们不应该捕杀的动物之一。这类动物包括大象、鲸鱼、海豚和海豚。不一而足，还有更多。
If we are going by intelligence, pigs. They are the smartest domesticated animal.
如果真要算智商的话，还有猪。
它们是最聪明的家养动物。
Monkeys, of any kind.
猴子，任何一种（都算）。
Crows too
乌鸦也算。
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Dogs
狗狗。
“There are some good reasons to believe that octopii are aliens from another planet.” I have been asserting this for years. They are amazing!
“有一些很好的理由相信章鱼是来自另一个星球的外星人。“我多年来一直坚持这一点。他们太让人惊讶了!
I recently came across another very interesting explanation that perhaps explains their striking intelligence.
I have always wondered why homo sapiens developed such powerful brains 30k-50k years ago - brains that had the ability to do calculus (not discovered until Isaac Newton, but nevertheless, ancient man had the intellectual cspacity). Why evolve such a powerful brain if it had no use? It takes huge amount of rare and hard to get protein to nourish the developing human brain.
Then just around two months ago, I read an article that suggested an explanation: the human brain developed to its present awesome cspacity just about the ssme time humans started esting shellfish
Shellfish were easy to acquire and consume (not oysters - too hard to open) in ancient Africa, they provide enormous amounts of protein and other nutrients essential foand they could iften be found in eater less than thirty feet deep. Ancient man wss known to be very very good at diving that deep.
That's the same marine zone generally inhabited by octopii.
我最近发现了另一个非常有趣的解释，或许可以解释它们惊人的智力。
我一直想知道为什么智人在3万到5万年前发展出了如此强大的大脑——有计算能力的大脑(直到艾萨克·牛顿才发现这点，但不管怎样，古人类拥有智力)。
如果大脑毫无用处，为什么要进化出这么强大的大脑呢?需要大量稀有且难以获得的蛋白质来滋养发育中的人类大脑。
然后就在两个月前，我读到一篇文章，文章给出了一个解释:人类大脑发展到现在惊人能力的时间正好是人类开始食用贝类的时间。
贝类很容易获得和食用(不是牡蛎，这很难打开)。在古代非洲，它们提供了大量的蛋白质和其他必需的营养物质，常常可以在不到30英尺深的水中就能找到。众所周知，古代人类非常非常擅长潜水到那么深的地方。
这也是章鱼通常居住的海洋区域。
Woah. Respect for the octopi. Any who can open their own tanks and chow down on snails deserves a snail buffet. Hasta la Vista, Inky.. Catch ya oceanside!
向章鱼致敬。
任何能自己开水箱吃蜗牛的动物都值得享用蜗牛自助餐。
再见，Inky，畅享海洋吧!
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Worst task in Australia? Fingerprint technician in the outback.
Koalas have fingerprints that are almost identical to those of humans, How similar? Take a look at this:
The human fingerprint is on the left. This similarity has caused confusion in some cases, and doubtless will continue to do so, especially when working with partial prints.
Laurence Boorer，退休(2020-至今)
在澳大利亚，最糟糕的任务是什么?处理指纹的技术人员。考拉（澳大利亚特有物种）的指纹与人类的指纹几乎完全相同，有多相似?看看这个:
左边是人的指纹，这种相似性在某些情况下造成了混乱，而且毫无疑问将继续造成混乱，特别是在处理部分指纹时。
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Ma'am. print evidence appears that a koala stole your baby.”
“女士，指纹证据显示是一只考拉偷了你的孩子。”
Lemurs Lemurs belong to a group called prosimian primates, defined as all primates that are neither monkeys nor apes. Though there are many species of lemur, there are very few individuals.
Lemurs have the ability to learn patterns, and they even have obxt discrimination skill
Lemur society is run by females.Female dominance over males is rare among mammals, including primates. But it's the norm for lemurs.
lemurs sing together as groups ... mostly.
Not many primates sing, aside from humans, and indris are the only lemurs known to do so. Living in small groups across Madagascar's eastern rain forests, they belt out songs that play a key role in group formation as well as defense. Both males and females sing, and research has shown that group members carefully coordinate their chorus by copying each other's rhythms and synchronizing notes.
Varun Kumar Riat自主创业 (2020-至今)
狐猴属于原猴类灵长类动物，定义为既不是猴子也不是猿类的、灵长类动物。虽然狐猴的种类很多，但个体却很少。
狐猴有学习模式的能力，它们甚至有辨别物体的技能。狐猴社会是由雌性主导的。雌性统治雄性的现象在哺乳动物中很少见，包括灵长类动物，但这是狐猴的标准。
狐猴会成群地唱歌……大多数时候是这样。
除了人类，很少有灵长类动物会唱歌，而大狐猴是已知的唯一会唱歌的狐猴。在马达加斯加东部的雨林里，它们以小群居的方式生活，它们发出的歌声在群居和防御中起着关键作用。
雄性和雌性都唱歌，研究表明，乐队成员通过模仿彼此的节奏和同步的音符来仔细协调他们的合唱。
Sean Kernan, Son of Quora
They might seem quite alien to humans: (Fear not, it is a pouch to carry their young.)
But they actually share one very rare quality with humans:
Thumbs.
They are one of the only non-primates to have them.
They have them on their feet though, as they don’t have “hands” per se.
The opposable thumbs are used to help them climb more efficiently. They are fantastic climbers, which is what allows them to climb while carrying babies on their back.
They are the only marsupial in the United States.
They also have the most teeth of any mammal (50).
But they still need to figure out how to deal with cars though. Come to the United States, and the most common roadkill you will see are opossums.
They can only see a few feet in front of them and rely on smell to navigate, hence the car problem.
If you do see a recently killed opossum, and you feel up to it, please check to see if it has young in its pouch, you can often rescue them this way.
Sean Kernan，Quora之子
负鼠，它们对人类来说可能很陌生:
不用害怕，这是一个装幼崽的育儿袋。但它们实际上和人类有一个非常罕见的共同点:
拇指。它们是唯一拥有这些的非灵长类动物之一，这些都长在它们脚上，因为它们本身没有“手”。对生拇指用来帮助他们更有效地攀爬。它们是很棒的攀登者，这使它们能够背着婴儿攀登。
它们是美国唯一的有袋动物，它们的牙齿也是哺乳动物中最多的(50颗)。
但是他们仍然需要弄清楚如何处理汽车。在美国，你会看到最常见的被车撞死的动物是负鼠。
它们只能看到前方几英尺的地方，靠气味导航。
如果你确实看到一只最近被杀的负鼠，并且你觉得可行的话，请检查一下它的袋里是否有幼崽，你通常可以用这种方式拯救它们。
Opossums are also great because they are natural trash pick-up and keep places clean. They also love to eat ticks and can’t normally carry rabies (it is theoretically possible, but rare enough that most wildlife experts say that they just plain can’t).
负鼠还有一点很棒是它们是天然的垃圾收集者，能保持干净。
它们也喜欢吃扁虱，通常不会携带狂犬病(理论上这是可能的，但非常罕见，大多数野生动物专家说它们就是没法携带狂犬病)。
Great point. Forgot to mention that!
很棒的一点，我忘了说了!
I knew this and really think they are neat animals but did not know about the thumbs. Did you know that a clowder of cats will allow an opossum to eat with them? For some reason these very selfish creatures will allow them but no others to share a meal!
我知道这一点，也确实认为它们是整洁的动物，但还不知道拇指这回事。
但你知道一群猫会允许负鼠和它们一起吃饭吗?
出于某种原因，这些非常自私的生物除了负鼠外不会跟其他任何生物分享食物!
Opossums reproductive genitals are complicated.
Females have 2 vaginal tracts. 2 uteri.
Males have forked, bifurcated penis.
They are constantly self grooming. Cleanliness.
They never get rabbies. They slow down the spread of Lyme diseases.
They lack sweat glands.
They are social creatures.
In front of predators, they pretend to be dead sticking out its tongue, hours toegther. It spreads an offensive odor while pretending dead. Putrid odor. Impressive defensive mechanisms.
Their memories are sharp.
They can also smell toxic substances and avoid them.
They are immune to most snakes' venom.
They use their tail as an arm, to hang down at the tree branches. Appendage facility.
Thot as dumwitted dirty creatures.
负鼠的生殖器官很复杂。
雌性有两个阴道，2个子宫。雄性有分叉的阴茎。
他们经常自我打扮，清洁。
它们没有汗腺。它们是群居动物。
在捕食者面前，它们装死并伸出舌头，一连几个小时。
它在假装死亡时散发出一种令人讨厌的气味，腐烂的气味，这是令人印象深刻的防御机制。
他们的记忆敏捷，还能闻到有毒物质并避开它们。
它们对大多数蛇的毒液免疫。
它们用尾巴当手臂，垂在树枝上。
Here in Sarasota they are everywhere. Some even call them “cute”, others call them ugly. I classify them as “cugly”. Their faces are horrendous lol, it’s like a hamster on steroids with a bad makeover
在萨拉索塔（美国西部城市），它们无处不在。
有些人倒是称它们“可爱”，有些人则称它们“丑陋”。
我把它们归类为“丑萌”。他们的脸挺可怕的，哈哈哈，就像一个吃了类固醇的仓鼠，糟糕的造型。
I’ve seen film of an octopus in a tank, watching his human cleaning out his tank by using a magnet on the outside to drag a scraper up and down the inside of the glass, scraping off algae. After watching this for a while the octopus, who iirc was called Jock, grabbed the scraper, yanked it off the magnet and then carefully scraped his own glass clean.
This was such a very human action, from a radically different creature whose line split from ours over half a billion years ago, that it makes me think that intelligence tends to be convergent, and that if we meet extraterrestrial aliens we’ll be able to understand each other fairly well.
Claire Jordan, 在国家卫生局工作过
我曾看过一部视频，一只章鱼在鱼缸里，看着它的主人用一块磁铁在外面吸着一把刮刀在玻璃里面上下刮去海藻，清理鱼缸。
看了一会儿之后，这只名叫乔克的章鱼抓住了刮刀，把它从磁铁上拽了下来，然后小心翼翼地把自己的玻璃刮干净。
这是一种非常人类行为，来自一个完全不同的生物的角度。它让我觉得智商往往是殊途同归的，如果我们遇见外星人，我们也能够很好地理解彼此。
Tony Castaldo
Great story. I research AI, and I agree. I think intelligence gets trained by the environment, and because environments are roughly the same, intelligence (when present) will tend toward convergence.
In a way, your story is about cultural learning: Jock learned something new by observing somebody else doing it. And it was tool use, no less. It would be even more interesting if Jock kept the scraper and spontaneously used it on his own when it was appropriate. He might have been rather bored in the tank, and cleaning it with a new and interesting tool was something to do!
It makes me wonder if anybody has tried to teach Octopi language skills …
很棒的故事。
我研究人工智能，我同意这点。我认为智力是受环境训练的，因为环境大致相同，智力(当存在时)会趋同。
在某种程度上，你的故事是关于文化学习的:乔克通过观察别人在做什么而学到新的东西。这是一种工具的使用。如果乔克保留刮刀，并在合适的时候自行使用的话，会更加有趣。
他可能在水箱里很无聊，用一种新的有趣的工具清洁水箱是一件很有意思的事情!
这让我怀疑是否有人尝试过教授章鱼语言技能。
What always puzzles me is why no-one has taught language to an elephant. OK, they can’t exactly sign with only one “limb” with one or two fingers on it, but I’m sure they could work a sturdy keyboard. I’m also sure they’re intelligent enough to understand barter - orangutans do - so if we could talk to them we could hire them to work for us, instead of enslaving them.
一直让我困惑的是为什么没有人教大象语言。
好吧，他们不可能用一个“肢体”的一两个“手指”来写字，但我相信他们可以使用一个坚固的键盘。
我也肯定它们足够聪明，懂得以物易物，猩猩就懂。
所以如果我们能和它们说话，我们就能雇佣它们为我们工作，而不是奴役它们。
Elephants can paint recognizable pictures. Google “elephant painting a picture”. Although this is accomplished by training (which is often cruel). Thus it does not prove any creativity or artistic desire, but it does prove that the elephant’s trunk has fine enough control to write, or as you say, work a keyboard or picture sextion pad. Other sources prove the elephant’s intelligence, problem solving capability, and emotional life. I agree they are enslaved and unjustly, often with cruelty.
大象能画出容易辨认的画。
谷歌“大象画一幅画”，尽管这是通过训练(通常是残酷的)来完成的。
因此，它不能证明任何创造力或艺术欲望，但它确实证明了象鼻子有足够好的控制力来写字，或者如你所说，使用键盘。
其他资料证明了大象的智力、解决问题的能力和情感生活。我同意他们是被奴役的，而且是不公正的，而且常常是残酷的。
Intelligence is a much-misunderstood ability.
For example, dogs are quite brilliant compared with us… at being dogs. When dog things are involved they are looking at us thinking ‘why don’t you get it? It’s barking obvious!’
Likewise horses etc.
What surprises us is when an animal displays higher-level intelligence; like the octopus which is apparently grasping something beyond everyday octopus stuff.
At these higher levels, intelligence must be convergent. The laws of physics don't change because they are being studied by an intelligent mattress in the swamps of Squornshelous Zeta.
智力是一种容易被误解的能力。
例如，与我们相比，狗在做狗方面……就非常聪明。当涉及到狗的事情时，它们会看着我们，想‘你为什么不明白?太特么明显了!”
类似的还有马等。
让我们惊讶的是，当动物表现出更高的智力水平时——比如这只章鱼，它显然是在抓一些章鱼不曾抓过的东西。
在这些更高的层次上，智力必然是趋同的。物理定律不会改变，也因此它们正被用于科学研究。
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language skills would be difficult to teach an octopus - most species of octopi are unsocial, so have no urge to talk, even visually, to each other, except at breeding times, and generally, their hearing sense is not particularly sharp, i think.
you’d need to find a social species of octopus - i hear of some interesting reports recently on one such, discovered recently deep in Pacific Ocean - and teach it something like a cartoon sign language.
my 2cents.
语言技能很难教授给章鱼。
大多数种类的章鱼都是不合群的，所以除了在繁殖期之外，它们没有交流的冲动，即使是视觉交流，而且一般来说，我认为它们的听觉不是特别灵敏。
你需要找到一种群体性的章鱼，我听说最近在太平洋深处发现了一种，教它们一些类似卡通手语的东西。
为此，我愿捐出2美分。
Well, by language I don’t mean spoken, but something using their natural abilities. Perhaps like gorillas, they can be taught to sign the things they want, or like Alex the Parrot taught to respond intelligibly for treats, or to solve puzzles for treats. Octopi do have fine motor control, and they can use tools, so they could draw signs, or sext one picture amongst many, etc.
我说的语言不是口头的，而是能运用他们的天赋的东西。
也许就像大猩猩一样，它们可以被教会在它们想要的东西上签名，或者像鹦鹉亚历克斯被教授对食物做出明确反应，或解谜获得食物。
章鱼确实有精细的运动控制，它们可以使用工具，所以它们可以画符号，或者从许多图片中选择一张，等等。
Claire, you have come to the same conclusion that I did.
That in order for high intelligence to lead to a technologically advanced society, they have to think in a logical cooperative way, and it would take the same kind of characteristics to make a successful society as we use to make successful societies.
Which means.. more commonalities than differences.
楼主，你得出了和我一样的结论。
为了让高智能引领一个技术先进的社会，他们必须以一种逻辑合作的方式来思考，这将需要同样的特征来创造一个成功的社会，就像我们创造成功的社会一样。
这意味着……共性多于差异。
Astrophysicists have been contemplating whether or not intelligence is convergent for decades (part of the reason SETI exists). I believe we do observe that intelligence is convergent in small glimpses from time to time in a few species here on earth. It is a very fascinating topic.
几十年来，天体物理学家一直在思考智慧是否会趋同。
我相信我们确实观察到，智慧在地球上的一些物种中偶尔会有微小的趋同。
这是一个非常吸引人的话题。
As far as we can tell, he laws of nature are the same everywhere in the universe. I agree that intelligence must be somewhat convergent. We all have to understand the same universe and use the same laws to deal with the universe.
就我们所知，自然界的法则在宇宙的任何地方都是一样的。
我同意智力一定是趋同的。我们都必须理解相同的宇宙，使用相同的定律来处理宇宙。
Octopuses also are skilled escape artists, as you likely know. I used to take my young son to see one in the D.C. National Zoo. When he was gone from his tank, I asked. He had slung an arm up and grabbed an overhead pipe, pulled himself out of the tank. But, like many escapees, he landed badly, on a floor with no water. He was replaced weeks later. I cannot recall if his body was outlined like a crime scene. They are extraordinary.
你可能知道，章鱼也是熟练的逃跑高手。我以前常带我的小儿子去华盛顿国家动物园看章鱼。
那一次，他从水箱里跑了出来。他吊起一只胳膊，抓住头顶上的一根管子，把自己拉出了水箱。但是，像许多逃跑者一样，他摔得很惨，落在了没有水的地板上。
几周后，他被替换掉了。我不记得他的尸体是不是像犯罪现场一样，但他们是非凡的。
Great stuff. Don't know if you have read “Other Minds” by Peter Godfrey Smith, which explores octopus intelligence? There are many stories like that in there.
很棒的故事。
不知道你是否读过彼得·戈弗雷·史密斯(Peter Godfrey Smith)的《其他心灵》(Other Minds)，这本书探索了章鱼的智力。
里面有很多这样的故事。
In an alternative universe octopus might have begun to nurture their young and passed on their learning to succeeding generations.
The thought upsets all the anthropocentric assumptions about culture and the development of intelligence look very shaky.
在另一个宇宙中，章鱼可能已经开始哺育它们的后代，并将它们的知识传给下一代。
这个想法颠覆了所有关于文化和智力发展的人类中心假设，看起来非常不可靠。
It would have to be a unique species of octopus. Octopuses only live for about four years, and die after they spawn. Between these two facts, a true octopus culture is impossible.
它必须是一种独特的章鱼。
章鱼的寿命只有四年左右，产卵后就会死亡。有了这两个事实，真正的章鱼文化是不可能的。
Things can change. It is not impossible that some octopus might evolve to live on after spawning and care for their brood.
A true fish culture is “impossible” too but the distant offspring of fish have learned to care for their young and to pass on culture so that they evolved considerable intelligence, technology and civilisation.
That was a far bigger change than what I am suggesting.
事物是可以改变的。
有些章鱼可能会进化到在产卵后继续生存并照顾它们的后代，这并非不可能。
尽管一种真正的鱼类文化是“不可能的”，但是鱼类的遥远后代（兴许）已经学会照顾它们的后代，并将文化传承下去，因此它们进化出可观的智力、技术和文明。
Hmm. I wish at least one of the cats or dogs I've had would've been like the octopus. Not a single one has ever cleaned up their own mess!
嗯。我希望我养过的猫或狗中至少有一只能像章鱼一样。
没有一只会收拾自己的烂摊子!
I have heard a story about an octopus that was given a treat inside a screw-top jar. It took the octopus a couple of hours to figure out how to unscrew the top of the jar and get the treat. In a neighboring tank, there was another octopus that could (and did) watch the first one. When given the chance, it took the second octopus less than a half hour to unscrew the top.
我听过一个关于章鱼的故事，它在一个旋盖的罐子里得到了美食。
这只章鱼花了好几个小时才弄明白如何拧开罐子的盖子，然后得到了美味。
在邻近的水箱里，有另一只章鱼能够(而且确实)看到第一只章鱼（的举动）。在它也得到了有机会后，第二只章鱼用了不到半小时就拧开了瓶盖。
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I love to eat octopus, but stories like this make me reconsider.
我喜欢吃章鱼，但像这样的故事让我重新考虑。
I feel that it’s wrong to eat pigs, because unlike other food mammals they’re above my threshold for “to intelligent to be food”.
The problem is, bacon is really delicious, so I’m not living in accord with my own principles.
我觉得吃猪是不对的，因为猪不像其他食用类哺乳动物，它们超过了我“聪明到不能作为食物”的阈值。
问题是，培根真的很好吃，所以我并没有按照我自己的原则生活。
The other element is parenting. Octopuses follow the r strategy, bearing thousands of eggs in one go, and don't give them individual attention raising them. In fact, octopus mothers generally don't eat while their eggs are incubating and die shortly after the eggs hatch.
The lack of active parenting prevents passing down knowledge from generation to generation. With no education, no culture or sustained advancement can happen as it does in humans.
另一个因素是养育。章鱼遵循自己的策略，一次产下数千个卵，在繁育过程中不给它们单独的关注。
事实上，章鱼妈妈通常在蛋孵化期间不吃东西，在蛋孵化后不久就会死亡。
缺乏积极的养育阻碍了知识的代代相传。没有教育，没有文化，没有持续的进步，就不会像人类一样。