David Scheel (https://alaskaoctopus.com/) is an ecologist and author of the book, Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses.
In this episode, we talk about octopus tool use, octopus dreams, and whether octopus arms have minds of their own.
Produced by Ryan Pemberton
Editing help from Cheyne Anderson and Alex Tighe
Fact checking by Caitlin Cherryh
Artwork by Evie Hilliar
18 Jun 2024TRANSCRIPT
#3 Portia: The Eight-Legged Genius
Fiona Cross (https://www.doctorspider.net/) is an arachnologist whose research focuses on spider cognition.
In this episode, we talk about how Fiona went from being terrified of spiders to studying them, the incredible strategies that the portia spider uses to hunt other spiders, and how Fiona and her colleagues tested whether portia can count.
Produced by Ryan Pemberton
Editing help from Alex Tighe and Cheyne Anderson
Fact checking by Caitlin Cherryh
Artwork by Evie Hilliar
Justin Marshall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Marshall_(neuroscientist)) is a neuroscientist and ecologist whose work focuses on how animals perceive their environment, particularly through vision.
In this episode, we talk about the sudden surge in the mantis shrimp's popularity (in large part due to a discovery Justin made), how what we thought we knew about mantis shrimp colour vision was upended, and the societal value of spending 3+ years staring at a worm.
Produced by Ryan Pemberton
Editing help from Cheyne Anderson and Alex Tighe
Fact checking by Caitlin Cherryh
Artwork by Evie Hilliar
Michael Webber's website (https://www.mwarrangements.com/)
4 Jun 2024TRANSCRIPT
#1 Whales: What Are They Saying?
Tom Mustill (https://www.tommustill.com/) is a biologist, wildlife filmmaker and author of the book How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication (https://www.tommustill.com/how-to-speak-whale).
In this episode, we talk about the time a whale jumped on him (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u-MW7vF0-Y&ab_channel=SanctuaryCruises), the unexpectedly popular album of whale song that galvanised the Save the Whales movement, and the researchers working on using artificial intelligence to understand whale communication (https://www.projectceti.org/).
Produced by Ryan Pemberton
Editing help from Alex Tighe and Cheyne Anderson
Fact checking by Caitlin Cherryh, Piyumal Demotte and Nhan Ly-Trong
Artwork by Evie Hilliar
The whale recordings on this episode are courtesy of Ocean Alliance (https://whale.org/ (https://whale.org/))
3 Jun 2024TRANSCRIPT
#0 What Is Umwelt?
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#4 Octopuses: Maybe We're Not So Different
Published 25 Jun 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But it would make a lot more sense to presume that octopus is dream than it would to presume that they don't. So, I think octopus is dream, yes. There's a video you can find online of a pet octopus of David's called Heidi. The video is called octopus dreaming. In it, you can see Heidi resting in her aquarium at the water's edge with her eyes closed. Suddenly, you see the color patterns on her skin change. As though in response to something she can see in her dream, maybe a crab. Then she turns dark. Octopus will do that when they leave the bottom. Then her skin turns brown, modeled with lighter patches and with dark striations. […]
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