Between 2010 and 2019, the value of the global octopus trade ballooned to $2.72bn (some £2bn) from $1.30bn (around £1bn), according to data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, while landings only rose around 9 per cent to 380,000 _...Read More_

"When octopuses are social, are they reaching out or simply reacting?"

„Despite expert findings that "high-welfare octopus farming was impossible," one company intends to open a commercial farming operation in Spain next year.“

Submission statement: Machine learning might eventually allow us to understand and even communicate with animals. It’ll never be a perfect conversation — there’s no way to translate “dolphish” word-for-word, for instance — and some argue _...Read More_