The Science of Octarians - severed octopus tentacles! | Splatoon real life inspirations

The Octarians in Splatoon and Splatoon 2 are severed octopus tentacles that think on their own, based on real life octopus biology and science. Let’s explore this biological inspiration and the octopus’s mini brains in its arms!

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:41 Octopus intelligence & “brains”
02:38 Severed octopus arms

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Scientific American, on recent severed arm study: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
Discovery, on octopus arms: https://www.discovery.com/science/Oct...
Science Daily, referenced in the video: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...

IMAGE ATTRIBUTIONS
“Octopus opening a container with a screw cap. Photographed at "Haus der Natur", Salzburg, Austria” By User:MatthiasKabel - Own work https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... [CC BY 2.5]
“Veined Octopus - Amphioctopus Marginatus” by prilfish https://flic.kr/p/6KJEVV [CC BY 2.0]
“Coconut octopus in shell” by q phia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... [CC BY 2.0]
“Giant Pacific Octopus - Aquarium of the Bay - Pier 39, Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California, USA” by Glen Bowman https://flic.kr/p/xki9Xh [CC BY 2.0]

ADDITIONAL SOURCES
1963 study: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...
2001 study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11546...
2013 study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

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