Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/kjjz3x/octopuses_have_no_bones_and_can_squeeze_through/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf).
I think it’s safe to say that a human brain would not survive being squished through a pipe like that, so how does the structure between an Octopus brain and human brain (or whatever vertebrate brain is closest to them) differ, and why does that result in the ability to go through just about any hole?
Thanks in advance.
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they have different shaped brains.
where humans have one giant group of nuerons in a ball in our skulls, an octopus has a smaller ball in its head and then a bunch of neurons (brain tissue) in its arms as well.
they also aren’t able to squish up completely. they have beaks, which are not flexible and compressible. so they can only squish down to that size, which is big enough to prevent any brain squishing.
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octopuses have neurons all over their body. Their “centralized” brain is not very large at all. They have neurons all over their arms, which is quite interesting.
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The head of an octopod only contains a very small brain (the “head” mostly internal organs digestive/circulatory, etc). Their arms each do perform their own simple brain like functions allowing the primary brain to be smaller than their beak which is what limits how small an opening they can go through.
They don’t have a brain like most animals do, more like a neuron net. It functions in much the same way it just not centered around on organ such as the brain
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why you don’t write titles properly?
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