Takes years to learn the piano, Taco shows promise at 6mo.
Comment on I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
PineRune@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TLDR: the octopus didn’t actually learn how to play music, it just learned to pull the levers for different keys to get food.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
inconel@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Their life expectancy is usually less than 2 years though. Does it worth for them to spend that long? We never know.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
True, but it will be a life truly lived.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s also what human musicians do, in a roundabout way
Drusas@fedia.io 2 months ago
By the end, he was playing with it just for "fun" without the food motivation. Great, stimulating toy for a bored octopus.