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Anyone who's ever hung out with an animal has probably spent some time wondering about a pretty basic question.

What are they actually thinking?

I just inherently absolutely fascinated by that question of like, what is it like to be another species of different creature?

Ferris Jaber is a science journalist who writes about all sorts of animal intelligence and behavior.

How orangutans teach each other how to use tools, how prairie dogs might even have their own language,

how elephants can actually have their own epiphanies.

So he was pretty familiar with impressive animals.

And then he saw a documentary about an octopus.

When I first watched my octopus teacher, I was really mesmerized.

If you haven't seen it, the film is a documentary shot by this diver Craig Foster.

Craig goes into the ocean every day for a year.

And in the process, he seems to develop a real relationship with an octopus.

I didn't know it was possible to connect that way with an octopus, especially a wild octopus.

It's like a human friend like waving and saying hi and excited to see you.

The octopus actually seems to reach out towards Craig.

And I could feel it like from one minute to the next, okay, I trust you.

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