TLDR: the octopus didn't actually learn how to play music, it just learned to pull the levers for different keys to get food.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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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.
That's also what human musicians do, in a roundabout way
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