Octopuses learn to use mirrors to find hidden food, a first-ever feat for invertebrates

Octopuses learn to use mirrors to find hidden food, a first-ever feat for invertebrates

Octopuses have added another astonishing skill to their résumé. In a first-ever feat for the animals, octopuses used mirrors to spot prey they couldn't see directly. The results, published in Current Biology, suggest these animals can use reflections to work out where hidden prey is, marking the first recorded example of that ability in an invertebrate. At Dartmouth College, researchers tested three California two-spot octopuses to see whether t…