Frank W. Grasso

TL;DR: This paper is the result of an international initiative and is a first attempt to develop guidelines for the care and welfare of cephalopods following the inclusion of this Class of ∼700 known living invertebrate species in Directive 2010/63/EU.

TL;DR: RoboLobster, a biomimetic robot lobster, is used to investigate biologically scaled chemotaxis algorithms using two point concentration sampling to track a statistically characterized turbulent plume, suggesting that a lobster’s chemo-orientation strategy entails an unidentified means of dealing with the intermittency of the concentration signal.

TL;DR: The approaches being taken by the cephalopod research community to produce “guidelines” are described and the potential contribution of neuroscience research to cepHalopod welfare is described.

TL;DR: Evidence is outlined that although competition with vertebrates has left a deep impression on the brains and behavior of cephalopods, the original reorganization of their complex brains from their molluscan ancestors might have been forged in ancient seas millions of years before the advent of bony fishes.

TL;DR: The performance of the American lobster under the same turbulent dispersal regime leads us to conclude that significantly more effective plume tracing strategies remain to be discovered.