References: the secret to our work

Many thanks to all the authors, scientists, artists and cephalovers listed below. Continue your many-armed love affair with your work! For photograph sources, please click on any picture throughout our website to reference back to their origional source and/or photographer page. Also, in honor of a fallen God amoung cephalopods, we tribute this website to Paul, the Octopus, predictor of world cup winning teams, who has left us for the great sea in the sky. R.I.P.

paul the octopus

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Hanlon, R. T., Messenger, J. B. (1996). Cephalopod behaviour. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 

Hochner, B., Shomrat, T., Fiorito, G. (2006). The octopus: A model for a comparative analysis of the evolution of learning and memory mechanisms. Biological Bulletin, 210: 308–317.

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Mather, J. A. (2008). To boldly go where no mollusc has gone before: Personality, play, thinking, and consciousness in cephalopods. Amer. Malac. Bull, 24: 51-58.

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