The Arms Race Is to Manage All of These Skills

Octopi are master tool users. They can fold the two sides of it's sucker together to form a pincer grasp and so it can do that with every single one. And like I said earlier octopi are capable of playing. Like their minds are advanced enough that they're constantly learning. So if you take them out of that 1970s New York and you put them in suburbia they're going to start messing with stuff just to be messing with it.