In captivity, octopuses enjoy toys, often the same ones with which children play. Octopuses like to take apart and put together Mr. Potato Head. They play with Legos. They’ll unscrew the lids to jars to get a tasty crab inside—but they enjoy manipulating objects so much, they’ll often screw the lid back on when they’re through. To keep the many octopuses he’s known occupied, Wilson, an engineer and inventor, created a series of nesting Plexiglas boxes with different locks. Octopuses enjoyed unlocking box after box to retrieve a treat inside.
