Nature: Octopus: Making Contact

  • Release year: 2019
Follow an Alaskan professor as he raises and studies a day octopus in his home, making remarkable discoveries about its extraordinary intelligence, personality and skills. Octopus behavior has fascinated humans for centuries; their unique shape and...read more
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Follow an Alaskan professor as he raises and studies a day octopus in his home, making remarkable discoveries about its extraordinary intelligence, personality and skills. Octopus behavior has fascinated humans for centuries; their unique shape and skillsets often provide the inspiration for extraterrestrials in science fiction. New in the world of cephalopod research is the extent to which these intelligent animals are individual personalities – able to recognize faces and interact with other individuals – all of which is an odd adaptation for an animal thought to live an asocial existence.

Original Release

10/02/2019

US Release

10/02/2019

Cast

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Directors

Anna Fitch

Writers

David Allen

Creators

George Page

Cast

Producers

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