Octopuses!

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

If Aliens really are amongst us, the most likely candidates may not be little green men, but living in plain sight, just below our ocean waves, in the form of the mysterious and awe-inspiringly clever Octopus. Scientists are only just discovering the amazing intelligence of these elegant and highly unusual creatures that seem to have evolved in a completely different way to nearly any other creature on the planet. Brian and Robin are joined by marine biologist Dr Tim Lamont, Neuroscientist Dr Amy Courtney and comedian Russell Kane to uncover just how clever these mysterious creatures are, how they've evolved intelligence in an entirely unique way and whether 8 brains, as well as 8 legs are really better than 1. The panel also discover the alarming truth about the unique sex lives of the octopus - lets just say it doesn't end well for at least one of the participants. New episodes released Wednesdays. If you're in the UK, listen to the newest episodes of The Infinite Monkey Cage first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3JzyF Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Robinin's.
0:05.7	And I'm Brancox.
0:06.7	You're about to listen to The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:09.6	Episodes will be released on Wednesdays,
0:12.0	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.4	But if you're in the UK, the full series is available right now.
0:17.1	First on BBC Sounds.
0:18.8	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:20.2	And I'm Robin Ince and this is the infinite monkey case.
0:22.6	Now since we were last on air there's been some fascinating hearings in Washington DC
0:27.1	about sightings and possible communication with alien intelligence.
0:30.8	I haven't read much about it myself.
0:32.2	I've got a lot of other things to do, such
0:33.9	just growing my fingernails, etc. I'll summarize it for you. It's dribble.
0:38.5	So are you saying that I'm presuming what happened is someone saw a thing it was a shiny thing they weren't sure
0:44.3	what the shiny thing was and then they did that immediately too I can only
0:47.7	presume it's alien intelligence unidentified phenomena but this is the interesting
0:52.3	thing to me because you are someone who has spoken with alien intelligence, haven't you?
0:57.0	No.
0:58.0	Well you would say though that you had a very long conversation with a creature that is not a creature of the other world, but indeed a creature of this world that is the closest that you imagine to what alien intelligence might be.
1:11.3	I did actually. There are aliens amongst us but they're not
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