• Klear@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Possibly the one thing that is preventing them from creating culture/civilisation with how smart they are. Maybe they’ll get their shit together when we’re gone. Planet of the apes is too played out.

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      1 year ago

      The second Children of Stuff- I think it’s Children of Ruin- talks about far-future octopod civilization. Interesting stuff. The whole trilogy is super good and I recommend it.

      • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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        I agree with the point you’re making. I’d just like to note that the mother doesn’t care for her children because she dies taking care of the eggs. The eggs get attached to a ceiling of an underwater cave, and the mother watches the eggs until she dies of starvation. It is theorized that this happens to prevent the mother from eating her children.