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The Cephalopods

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Invertebrate Learning

Abstract

The cephalopods are marine predators that have survived by successfully competing with the teleost fish in all areas of the sea from shoreline to abyssal depths. The brain of cephalopods approaches that of the vertebrates in relative size, being as large as or larger than the brains of many fish although smaller than those of birds and mammals. The extensive development of sensory and neural systems that is seen in the recent cephalopods enables them to exhibit the most complex types of adaptive behavior that are found in the nonvertebrate world. Having evolved as a separate group for more than 500 million years to reach the position that they now occupy in the animal kingdom, cephalopods are of obvious interest to investigators employing a comparative approach. It is unfortunate that the practical difficulties involved in obtaining, transporting, and housing cephalopods in conditions suitable for behavioral research have precluded their wider use.

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