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==== Cephalopods ==== {{further|Cephalopod}} [[Cephalopod]]s including the [[octopus]], [[squid]], [[cuttlefish]] and [[nautilus]] are the most intelligent of [[mollusc]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=The cephalopoda |url=https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/taxa/inverts/mollusca/cephalopoda.php |publisher=University of California Museum of Paleontology |access-date=19 February 2025}}</ref> They are highly cephalized,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tublitz |first1=Nathan |title=Neural plasticity: a window into the complexity of the brain |url=http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eivs/sympo/papers/Tublitz.pdf |publisher=University of Oregon |access-date=19 February 2025 |page=29 |date=March 2008 |quote=to the highly cephalized brain of cephalopods with functionally discrete regions}}</ref> with well-developed senses, including [[cephalopod eye|advanced 'camera' eyes]] and large brains.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nilsson |first1=Dan-E. |last2=Johnsen |first2=Sönke |last3=Warrant |first3=Eric |title=Cephalopod versus vertebrate eyes |journal=Current Biology |volume=33 |issue=20 |year=2023 |pages=R1100-R1105. |url=https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(23)00988-0.pdf |quote=Vertebrates and cephalopods are the two major animal groups that view the world through sophisticated camera-type eyes... also devote major parts of their brains to the processing of visual information.|doi=10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.049|doi-access=free}}</ref><!--<ref>{{cite book |last1=Solomon |first1=Eldra |last2=Berg |first2=Linda |last3=Martin |first3=Diana W. |title=Biology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdQ8AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA884 |year=2010 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-133-17032-7 |page=884}}</ref>-->
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