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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: How animals like Octopus are discovered to get "bored"
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"Bored" is a human term, and it's associated with a set of negative behaviors.  The "cure for boredom" in humans is additional interaction.  

When an octopus is in a closed area, after a while they start to take on some of these same behaviors, and they stop when they have more interaction.  Thus the term "bored" gets applied by the humans observing them.

In nature, they probably just go a little farther to explore an area beyond their normal area.  Just like humans who decide to explore frontiers.  We're applying human emotional state labels to their observed state because it makes good predictions.