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More studies on animal flexibility, causal reasoning, prospection, and imagination

Education about non-mammals, particularly addressed to children

Funded trips to the Great Barrier Reef for all students

Animal welfare is determined solely by public opinion

Animal welfare is determined through a combination of ethics and science

Animal welfare is determined only by science

Animal welfare is determined through relationships among ethics, science, and public opinion

Humans have the highest intelligence on earth because they are the only species that has social learning

Animals developed a higher form of intelligence to solve social, not ecological, problems

Animals cannot learn unless they are social

Animals' social intelligence is based on their place in Aristotle's scala naturae

Octopuses came as intelligent aliens from space

Octopuses are born with innate intelligence and cannot learn

Octopuses show an inferior level of intelligence compared to all other animals

Octopuses lead a solitary lifestyle and have a short lifespan but still provide evidence of flexibility, causal reasoning, prospection, and imagination

They are solitary.

Flexibility in anti-predator tactics.

Do not show any form of learning.

They stay in one place and do not explore their environments.

There is a bias of attention towards mammals and animals more similar to humans

Humans have only considered animal welfare for domesticated species

More animals live on land than in the sea

We do not know enough about octopuses to properly protect them

Flatworms are the last common ancestor of octopuses and humans, so we should care for flatworms before we care for octopuses

Humans sit above animals in the natural hierarchy, which enables us to do anything we like to animals

Humans were the last to evolve, which means we are obligated to care for animals

Aristotle's scala naturae supports the extraterrestrial origin of octopuses

We do not expect animal groups unrelated to humans to have high intelligence

We believe that all animals have extraterrestrial origins

We have always considered multiple models of intelligence

We have historically placed more value on cephalopods than on mammals

There is an obvious luxury market for octopuses.

Factory farms pollute the near shore environment.

Octopuses live longer in factory farms than in the wild.

Insects are not intelligent. They are merely automata with tiny brains

Foraging worker bees can learn about food patches near their hive from another worker bee's 'waggle dance' which optimizes searching for food

Bees have tiny brains and therefore cannot acquire and use information during their short lifespan

Insects are not social and are therefore too dissimilar to humans to display intelligence