{"id":11024,"date":"2025-12-10T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11024"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:15:57","slug":"he-set-out-to-teach-an-octopus-piano-the-results-surprised-even-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/10\/he-set-out-to-teach-an-octopus-piano-the-results-surprised-even-him\/","title":{"rendered":"He set out to teach an octopus piano. The results surprised even him."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2025\/12\/09\/octopus-plays-piano-keys-tako\/\">Washington Post<\/a> The task required hundreds of hours of problem-solving and patience. Musician Mattias Krantz said it was worth it. The white package that arrived at Mattias Krantz\u2019s home in Sweden after a five-hour flight contained an octopus that Krantz saved from becoming someone\u2019s meal. Krantz\u2019s hopes for the octopus, which he named Takoyaki, were high \u2014 maybe unreasonably so. Within about six months, Krantz wanted Takoyaki to play the piano so well that the animal could perform \u201cUnder the Sea\u201d and the\u00a0<a aria-label=\"theme from the movie \u201cJaws.\u201d, opens in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/06\/14\/jaws-theme-john-williams-scary-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">theme from the movie \u201cJaws.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post The task required hundreds of hours of problem-solving and patience. Musician Mattias Krantz said it was worth it. The white package that arrived at Mattias Krantz\u2019s home in Sweden after a five-hour flight contained an octopus that Krantz saved from becoming someone\u2019s meal. Krantz\u2019s hopes for the octopus, which he named Takoyaki, were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-10-at-20.38.15.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11043,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024\/revisions\/11043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}