But one thing's for sure: This creature of the deep has an incredible memory.
Then there’s the fact that the phrase “living fossil” is the biological equivalent of judging a book by its cover. Just because an animalsomewhat similar over a long period of time doesn’t necessarily mean that it is. Every time an animal reproduces, it creates the opportunity for new genetic mutations to enter into the population of its species. Just because those changes don’t manifest in physically obvious doesn’t mean they aren’t happening.
Anthropocentrism could be clouding our appraisal of the nautilus—and perhaps other members of the animal kingdom—in more subtle ways, too. Basil has dedicated her life to studying the intelligence of the nautilus. She has used aquatic mazes to test the creature’s response to various stimuli and successfully demonstrated that the nautilus has an impressive memory. That makes it one of the oldest existing species known to be capable of learning.
“They’re not highly visual,” she says of the nautilus. “Like, if you look at a cuttlefish, they look at you. Their tentacles orient to you. They look at you. Some of them will come up… and try and touch you.” The nautilus? Not so much. “We see nautiluses in the aquarium in the daytime, which is when they sleep,” Basil says. “You know if you looked at me at 3 a.m., you wouldn’t think I was that complex either.
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