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10 October 2018
Paul McDevitt
Octopus’s garden
FEEDBACK is buzzing at the startling news that octopuses fed MDMA go all huggy (29 September, p 18). Cephalopods can change skin patterns, maybe to communicate (6 October, p 39). We wondered what might signal “it’s not that stuff they put in the water, I really, really love you”, but then realised that it may be impossible to differentiate that message from “let’s dance to dawn”.
It inspired us, though, to begin a search for hug-related research. We immediately found ““, in the August edition of IEEE Spectrum and…
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