Musashi wrote:
>
> The recent advances in the study of Octopi have only been startling because
> of the
> low level of intelligence that we had attributed to them to start with. It
> was big news
> when it was found that an Octopus could twist open a closed glass jar to get
> at the shrimp
> inside. But how intelligent is this? Last year I had a squirrel which broke
> into my garage
> and twisted open the cap of the jar containing sunflower seeds. Pretty
> impressive yes, but
> I'm not about to to put squirrels on my list of "intelligent animals" to be
> revered.

I had a squirrel get into my garage and lift the lid up on a bucket of seed
and climb in. Fortunately, he stayed in there and I was able to remove the
bucket from the garage with the squirrel in it.

> As to whale meat, frankly it's over rated. Even in japan there are plenty of
> people who not only won't eat it, but have never even tried it.

I'd probably try it given the chance.

--
Dan