You can compare her intelligenceto a cat or a dog or even to one of the lower primates. A...
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You can compare her intelligence
to a cat or a dog or even to one of the lower primates. A mollusk shouldn't be this intelligent. So many times I'd go and search
through the scientific papers, looking for the strange thing I'd seen. And then you'd just come up
absolutely blank. There's nothing. You're going into a place
that's under-studied, and, almost on a weekly basis,
you can find out something new to science
to a cat or a dog or even to one of the lower primates. A mollusk shouldn't be this intelligent. So many times I'd go and search
through the scientific papers, looking for the strange thing I'd seen. And then you'd just come up
absolutely blank. There's nothing. You're going into a place
that's under-studied, and, almost on a weekly basis,
you can find out something new to science
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You can compare her intelligence
to a cat or a dog
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or even to one of the lower primates.
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A mollusk shouldn't be this intelligent.
00:00:13.076 --> 00:00:17.068
So many times I'd go and search
through the scientific papers,
00:00:17.076 --> 00:00:19.096
looking for the strange thing I'd seen.
00:00:20.088 --> 00:00:23.096
And then you'd just come up
absolutely blank. There's nothing.
00:00:26.088 --> 00:00:29.024
You're going into a place
that's under-studied,
00:00:29.032 --> 00:00:34.008
and, almost on a weekly basis,
you can find out something new to science.
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Movie Summary
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
![[gasps, sighs] - My Octopus Teacher](https://clip.cafe/img400/gasps-sighs-s8.jpg)
