this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
68 points (97.2% liked)
Videos
17202 readers
347 users here now
For sharing interesting videos from around the Web!
Rules
- Videos only (aside from meta posts flagged with [META])
- Follow the global Mastodon.World rules and the Lemmy.World TOS while posting and commenting.
- Don't be a jerk
- No advertising
- No political videos, post those to !politicalvideos@lemmy.world instead.
- Avoid clickbait titles. (Tip: Use dearrow)
- Link directly to the video source and not for example an embedded video in an article or tracked sharing link.
- Duplicate posts may be removed
- AI generated content must be tagged with "[AI] …" ^Discussion^
Note: bans may apply to both !videos@lemmy.world and !politicalvideos@lemmy.world
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
TLDR: the octopus didn't actually learn how to play music, it just learned to pull the levers for different keys to get food.
That's also what human musicians do, in a roundabout way
By the end, he was playing with it just for "fun" without the food motivation. Great, stimulating toy for a bored octopus.
Takes years to learn the piano, Taco shows promise at 6mo.
Their life expectancy is usually less than 2 years though. Does it worth for them to spend that long? We never know.
True, but it will be a life truly lived.