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Journal of Experimental Biology 38,127-133 (1961)
Published by Company of Biologists 1961

Weight Discrimination by Octopus

M. J. WELLS 1

1 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

1. Blinded octopuses can readily be trained to discriminate by touch between objects differing in texture.

2. They seem unable to discriminate between similar objects differing only in weight.

3. The relevance of this to what is already known about the use of proprioceptive information in learning by Octopus is discussed.

Submitted on July 28, 1960






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