The soul of an octopus chapter 2

In the second chapter, we are introduced to a new octopus, octavia. Octavia is a wild caught octopus from British Columbia and is more wary after not growing up in an aquarium setting. The author goes in depth about octopus intelligence and we learn that brain size isn’t the determining factor for animal intelligence. Many studies trying to understand animal brains and intelligence have gone awry because scientists didn’t understand differences in the structures of non-human brains. The chapter ends with Octavia aging and a new baby octopus enters the picture.