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Weight Discrimination by Octopus

1961; The Company of Biologists; Volume: 38; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1242/jeb.38.1.127

1477-9145

M. J. Wells,

Cephalopods and Marine Biology

ABSTRACT Blinded octopuses can readily be trained to discriminate by touch between objects differing in texture. They seem unable to discriminate between similar objects differing only in weight. The relevance of this to what is already known about the use of proprioceptive information in learning by Octopus is discussed.