Smarter Than Your Average...Octopus?

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -- An octopus in a German zoo has learned to open jars of shrimp by watching zoo attendants perform the act underwater.

Frida, a five-month-old female octopus, opens the jars by pressing her body on the lid and grasping the sides with the suckers on her eight tentacles. With a succession of body twists she unscrews the lid. [ CNN ]

I can see this octopus getting into all kinds of trouble now. How intelligent are Octopuses (octopii?) supposed to be anyways?

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