I think instead of dog or horse races the animal-based gambling of choice should be making octopuses solve puzzles
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I think instead of dog or horse races the animal-based gambling of choice should be making octopuses solve puzzles
the real gamble is how much longer we will survive as they learn our ways
the financial incentive to breed smarter and more puzzle-obsessed octopi can only have one outcome: within a decade of the sport's inception, cephalopods form the overwhelming majority of Gamers