WHAT IS LIFE? ACHIEVE 1 TERM ACCESS CODE
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Why the questions of comparative animal intelligence are not generally useful.
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The predatory behavior of octopuses involves exploration and manipulations which are the behaviors that human often consider being intelligent. But the concept of intelligence cannot be applied objectively to other species, which have evolved in response to the selective forces at work in their own particular niches.
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