How high is the IQ of the octopus thought to be a possible extraterrestrial creature?

There are countless creatures on Earth, each with its special features, for example, we humans are very different from other creatures, which also makes many people think that we humans may be the "Chosen One", or advanced alien civilizations arranged on Earth. Of course, the birth of our human civilization did not appear overnight, but also after millions of years, through the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Industrial Revolution to develop to the current level, if it is arranged by higher civilizations, why did they not directly let us enter the age of technological civilization in one step, but let us go through so many backward prehistoric processes?

Octopus mates and eats itself after self-mutilation

In addition, our human beings are considered by some people as an alien civilization "arranged" in addition, there are some creatures that are also considered not the Earth's creatures, maybe extraterrestrial creatures, such as octopuses. What kind of creature is the octopus, and why would someone not believe it is a creature of Earth?

We will talk about one of the characteristics of octopuses today, that is, they will self-harm and eat themselves after mating. Octopus mating with many other creatures is different, male octopus with a very strange tentacle, the octopus sperm the "hidden" in this tentacle, this one tentacle is called "cross wrist". There are some male octopuses of the opposite sex when mating, they will this one "crossed wrist" into the subject's oviduct, and then achieve fertilization. When they have completed the combination, the male octopus will soon die, and the female octopus remaining time is not much. Because these female octopuses in combination with the male, will find a place to lay their eggs, and after laying eggs, they gradually stop eating and spend the rest of their time incubating their "love crystals". The energy required for the entire incubation process comes entirely from the female octopus herself. As the female octopus no longer goes out to feed, so they will slowly starve to death.

Of course, after the spawning octopus, no longer go out to feed, but that does not mean that they do not need to eat, after all, the people are food, octopus also needs to eat to maintain life. Just in the process of hatching offspring, the octopus will peel off their skin, but also bite off the tips of the tentacles. When the baby octopus is born, the female octopus has long since died. And the male octopus in the completion of the union with the female octopus also died soon after, so the baby octopus was born, is not the so-called "two generations together", or "three generations together" of the situation.

This is a problem that has plagued humans for many years, why do octopuses in reproduction "self-harm" and eat themselves? At first, scientists believe that the bonding process may be the octopus that triggered the octopus body's "self-destruction" mechanism, after decades of ability, some scientists finally found the octopus "self-destruction" mechanism part of the evidence. What is this situation?

Researchers at the University of Chicago found that in octopus mating, some cholesterol-related "signaling pathways" will be changed, and this will affect the levels of various hormones. As early as 1977, scientists discovered that the octopus body has a special organ called the optic gland, these glands in the octopus body will produce steroid hormones. This organ is somewhat similar to the function of our human body's pituitary gland, which affects the sexual development of the octopus as well as the aging process. If the optic glands are removed from octopuses before they mate, the octopuses without optic glands can survive for several months after spawning. This study suggests that the presence of octopus optic glands is likely to influence their behavior after mating.

Researchers also found that octopuses are more active in genes that control sex hormones and cholesterol metabolism in the body when they are near death. So the researchers conducted a comparison experiment, before and after the octopus mating were taken for fine analysis of the optic gland, the results found that when the octopus finished mating, the optic gland will begin to secrete a large number of sex hormones and cholesterol precursors, as well as insulin-like hormones. As these molecules continue to be secreted, the octopus received the "self-destructive" signal that is increasingly strong, when the same threshold is reached, it will make "self-harm" or even eat its behavior.

How smart is the octopus?

The special thing about octopuses is not only that they appear to "self-harm" or eat their behavior after bonding, but their IQ is also much higher than many creatures, and the octopus genome is also more than many invertebrates. So many people believe that octopuses may be creatures from other planets. So how smart is the octopus?

According to research data, the octopus genome is much more than many invertebrates, their genome number reaches 33,000 groups. Moreover, the gene sequence of octopus is also very different from other organisms on earth, and the ability of octopus to improve its genetic code is also more powerful than other organisms, able to adapt to various extreme environments by adapting the nerves prepared according to the environment. In the decoding of octopus genes, researchers also found that octopus also has a set of human-like genes, this one gene can build neural networks.

The reason why the octopus is very smart, one of the reasons is that the octopus brain has as many as 500 million neurons, there are three hearts and two sets of memory systems, one set of memory systems directly connected to the various suckers of the octopus, and the other set of memory systems is the memory system of the octopus brain. In addition, the octopus is covered with a variety of receptors, these receptors are very sensitive and can solve complex problems alone. These unique structures make the octopus's thinking ability is much higher than the average animal, is one of the highest IQ animals on Earth.

To prove that octopus is smart, researchers have done a lot of experiments, in one of them, researchers put a glass bottle containing lobster in the water, and then use a cork to stopper the glass bottle. The octopus in this glass bottle around a few turns using its tentacles will be wrapped around it, and then use the tentacles to pull out the cork, the lobster ate. This shows that the thinking ability of an octopus is relatively strong, and can solve many problems independently. Moreover, the thinking ability and problem-solving abilities of an octopus should be innate, rather than acquired learning. Because they are born when their parents have long died, so no elders to them to pass on this experience and knowledge.

Because octopuses are so special, many scientists believe they may have come from an alien planet. According to a study published in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, researchers believe that long ago, the eggs of hydrocephalus-like octopuses were frozen inside these small fragments of comets, which landed on Earth after a collision with the Earth, carrying the eggs of hydrocephalus, with Some may land in desert areas, some may land in the ocean or rivers, lakes, these landed in the water cephalic eggs will begin to wake up, and then in the Earth survived.

If the hydrocephalus, including octopuses, really came from an alien planet and were brought to Earth by these small fragments of comets, it means that Earth is not the only living planet and that similar hydrocephalus may exist on other planets. Because many planets have water, some have even more water content than Earth. If the eggs of hydrocephalus also landed on those planets with liquid water, then the offspring of hydrocephalus could theoretically survive on these planets as well. This is the reason why many scientists believe that there may be fish-like alien life on these planets with liquid oceans in Europa.

Of course, this is only some of the current scientists' speculation, although many studies have shown that octopus is indeed very special, this does not directly indicate that octopus does not belong to the Earth's creatures, only to prove that octopus and many creatures are relatively large differences.