Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from New York.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski,
Andrew Humson Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones of our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that is James.
OK, my fact this week is that actually squids don't play games.
It's not so much a fact as like a passive aggressive message to Netflix.
Yeah, I've got their IMDB ratings when James Harkin gets onto it.
I think you will find.
Is that show anything to do with squid playing games?
Have you rumbled them?
No, I haven't.
No, OK, it's just a silly thing.
Basically, I was reading about play and about games and the evolution of playing.
And I wanted to see what animals do play and what animals don't play.
And for obvious reasons, I thought I'd see if squid play games.
And I found an article in the Journal of Current Biology called Fun and Play in Invertebrates by Sarah Zelinski,
and she says there is no evidence in play for cuttlefish or squids as defined by Berghardt's five criteria.
So there's like these criteria you use in biology to find out if someone's playing or if something is playing,
I should say.