When It Comes to Octopuses, Taste Is for Suckers | The New York Times

Paloma Gonzalez Bellido, an MBL Whitman Center Scientist and collaborator with Senior Scientist Roger Hanlon, comments on this study. By Katherine J. Wu Octopuses can taste what their arms touch, and scientists have figured out how. Should anything ever compel you to lick an octopus’s arm, keep this in mind: That arm has all the