have no such rigid structure, it was believed that the octopuses have only limited control over their eight flexible limbs. However, the Hebrew University researchers have shown otherwise. They developed a three-choice, transparent, plexiglass maze that required the octopus to use a single arm and direct it to a visually marked compartment outside of its tank of water that contained a food reward.

The octopuses in the experiment learned to insert a single arm through a central tube, out of the water, and into the correct marked goal compartment to retrieve the food reward. This success was dependent on visual information, which the octopuses were able to translate into a series of coordinated movements made by a single arm and retrieve the food. They were also able to repeatA unique lantern clock with original verge escapement made in the 1680s by William Reeve of Spalding, Lincolnshire, a maker previously unrecorded and the only clock known by him, also signed behind the chapter ring by Joseph Windmills of London (who perhaps did the engraving), this being the oldest known domestic clock from the county of Lincolnshire. Unrestored but in working order. See article. SOLD.back