A couple of dozen octopuses at aquariums around Europe have been given Rubik's cubes to play with. It's not to find out of they can solve them (although it would be SO cool if they did), but to see if the animals favor one arm (or two) over the others. Visitors will be asked to observe which arm they use when playing with the puzzles. The results will be used for research, but also to make the octopuses' lives easier and more enriched. Link -via Boing Boing
That's how they learned to open bottles.
and i think HollywoodBob meant cephalopods
But the question is: if an infinite number of octopi-puses typed on an infinite number of typewrites, would they write the entire works of Shakespeare in a quarter of the infinte time as the monkeys ... or monkuses?