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RE: Animal Intelligence and its Implications for Alien Life Part 1: Octopi
There are a couple of more social species of octopi we've found now where the mother survives having young multiple times- they'd make excellent candidates for selective breeding and Uplift. (Which, if you've never read David Brin's Uplift books, they're a lot of fun. They cover some really cool ideas.)
Oh no! Sentient octopi with longer lifespan. If man is not careful, these octopi may serve man for dinner! Maybe after man has precipitated his own demise with his rampant disregard for his environment, these octopi will be the dominant species on Earth.
Hah, one of the fiction stories I'm working on actually involves sentient octopi as the dominant species on Earth- man flees ecological catastrophe, octopi become the dominant sentient species, man returns to Earth and has to find a way to live alongside them.
You must send me a publish date and title.
Hah, will do- it's a ways down my list, though, have at least three projects before it.