For the first time in the United States, research with cephalopods might require approval by an ethics committee.

  • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The fact that there wasn’t already bothers me. Octopodes are extremely intelligent creatures and we’ve known this for a while. Not that I think intelligence should be how we base our treatment of animals, but it is one of the bigger factors when laws about this sort of thing get made, so I would have expected it to be taken into account before now.