Mike! Stay Away From the Red Ball!
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The octopus can learn from watching. Scientists taught some octopus to choose a white ball (they’d get a morsel of fish) over a red ball (which gave them an electric shock). Other octopus, who just watched, didn’t have to be taught.
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