Octopus Wrestling

Three fifths of an octopus neurons are not in the brain, they're in its arms. Researchers who cut off an octopus's arm found that it grabs a food item and tries to pass it to where the mouth would be if the arm were still attached to its body. All of this means that people some time ago treated the octopus as something to fuck with for fun. The idea of octopus wrestling first to cold in the late 40s.