The study of intelligence in nature has just exploded and is the hottest trend in biology. I hardly get a Science News that does not have at least one new research study on animal intelligence. This is a clear paradigm shift. Up until just a very few years ago most biologists scoffed at the idea that there was any intelligence in simple life and anything that did not have a big brain like humans was just a simple computer reacting to the environment.

One of these “dumb” creatures is a small squid. Studies in labs said that they just lay their eggs and then let the babies fend for themselves, but a deep water camera in Monterey Canyon off California’s coast happened upon a squid mom who picked up her eggs and moved them apparently to a safer place. As she carried the membrane, which was bigger the she was and had 2000 to 3000 eggs, she would flare her arms once or twice a minute. This was most likely to flush water over them to provide oxygen for them.


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