Every time I read about octopi I'm stunned at their intelligence and ability to connect with humans.
If our civilization lasts long enough, someday we'll all be reviled for eating animals, especially octopi and pigs.
If our civilization lasts long enough, someday we'll all be reviled for eating animals, especially octopi and pigs.
Harry Harrison wrote a book I read many years ago called West of Eden, where the dinosaur extinction event didn't occur. An advanced species of lizard used modified lifeforms for their tech. I have it on my list to read again. It does make you think people might be more symbiotic towards the world rather than what we have now.
That may very well be a skewed understanding, but it's likely why they choose that grouping.
They’re just as social and emotional as dogs are.
Intelligence wise, dogs are probably a bit smarter. But how much, I don’t know, they don’t seem that radically different.
I think pigs have just received enough good PR recently that they come to mind as another particularly intelligent animal.