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Cuttlefish learn delayed gratification - New York Daily News

Cuttlefish show their intelligence by snubbing sub-standard snacks

The results, published today in the journal  Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provide the first evidence of a link between self-control and intelligence in a non-primate species. To conduct the experiment, common cuttlefish ( Sepia officinalis) in tanks were presented with two foods they commonly eat, each in a separate Perspex chamber. In one chamber was a piece of king prawn, which they could eat immediately. In the other was a live grass shrimp, their preferred food, but they could only have the shrimp if they waited and didn’t eat the prawn. A range of delays were tested, starting at 10 seconds and increasing by 10 seconds each time. All six cuttlefish in the experiment showed self-control, waiting for the grass shrimp and ignoring the king prawn. Those with the most self-control could wait 130 seconds for the grass shrimp to be released – an ability comparable with large-brained animals like chimpanzees.

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