Octopuses like HDTV as much as we do. Who knew? Apparently a group researches with too much grant money available tested a bunch of cephalopods a while back and found that while they appear intelligent, they didn’t responded to images on standard definition TVs. So they redid the test with HDTVs recently. The octopuses bought it and responded “more vigorously” to the HDTV images of animals and inate objects. The hope is that now researchers can now use HDTVs as a tool to study behavioural traits, such as personality.[Read more...]