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How octopuses taste their meals by touching them, according to a new study
Nicknamed the devilfish, the octopus is a soft-bodied marine creature with eight tentacles. Its mouth is found at the center point of the tentacles. Octopuses are predatory and eat shellfish and crabs. But little has been known about how octopuses sense what is dangerous or edible for them. According to a recent study, they seem to have the taste-by-touch ability to sense the object with their dots on their long tentacles. It seems quite different from humans that perceive five tastes, sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami.
But why researchers are studying how the octopus senses or tastes things around them? Does it matter how this marine creature senses or tastes? What have they learned from the finding? Well, in basic science, researchers often study by curiosity without knowing what exactly they will find or learn from it.
Enjoy reading the article and learn about the sensing ability and mechanism of the grotesque, eight-legged marine creature.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/29/world/octopus-touch-taste-scn/index.html
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