Northeastern University student Aidan Sasser has learned that when 15 research subjects look identical, it’s their personalities that distinguish them — even when they’re octopuses.

Sasser, a fourth year student, recently completed a co-op at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he conducted research on how octopuses manipulate objects with the suckers on their arms.

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