{"id":2399,"date":"2003-02-26T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2003-02-26T10:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2003-02-26T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2003-02-26T10:48:32","slug":"smarter_than_yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"Smarter Than Your Average&#8230;Octopus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/europe\/02\/24\/offbeat.octopus.shrimp.reut\/index.html\">MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) &#8212; An octopus in a German zoo has learned to open jars of shrimp by watching zoo attendants perform the act underwater.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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. [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/\">CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can see this octopus getting into all kinds of trouble now.  How intelligent are Octopuses (octopii?) supposed to be anyways?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) &#8212; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}