You won't believe this- Amazing Disappearing Octopus

Whoa. :eek: That's flippin' crazy. Octupuses have learnt how to camouflage.
 
Is that what I think it is?

If so, old.

:)
 
I'm scared...what happens?

holy christ on a bike, how the frigging hell did it do that?
 
This gets the "wtf award" of the day.
 
How did the person know it was there?
I wouldn't have been able to see it.
I call fake!
 
yep is old I wachted a lot of times

the octopus is a very amazing,they can change the color of they skin very fas and even the texture
 
If you are talking about a cuttlefish than i've seen it.
 
Datrix said:
How did the person know it was there?
I wouldn't have been able to see it.
I call fake!
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is real

in many documental of animal planet you see that video
 
Datrix said:
How did the person know it was there?
I wouldn't have been able to see it.
I call fake!
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Perhaps that species of octopus favours that vegetation as a hiding spot so the person knew where to look, or maybe they followed the octopus and it hid.

It's scary how it just materialises ;(
 
<RJMC> said:
is real

in many documental of animal planet you see that video
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Well maybe animal planet faked it!

Murray_H said:
Perhaps that species of octopus favours that vegetation as a hiding spot so the person knew where to look, or maybe they followed the octopus and it hid.
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Possibly... but I stick with my opinion.
 
Datrix said:
Well maybe animal planet faked it!


Possibly... but I stick with my opinion.
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is real

in the documental where I wachted it even show the filmation

also are many other videos like that in many documentals

chek out google for information about octopus and you will find that will say that the octopus can change the color so fast and theyr textures
 
Datrix said:
Hey, that actually looked cool. :P
I think I might be somehow "getting" that.
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Yeah it looks good, I want it too. Discovery + their subchannels always put stuff on DVD, so I assume this'll be on DVD
 
Why do you guys believe this isn't real? Its amazing.

But nature has far more amazing things as well. Nature is amazing. Alot of things are possible in nature, that even in our advanced, technical age they still amaze us.

Nature is neat.
 
Raziaar said:
Why do you guys believe this isn't real? Its amazing.

But nature has far more amazing things as well. Nature is amazing. Alot of things are possible in nature, that even in our advanced, technical age they still amaze us.

Nature is neat.
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I like in nature how some insects have thousands of children every month.
 
Raziaar said:
Why do you guys believe this isn't real? Its amazing.

But nature has far more amazing things as well. Nature is amazing. Alot of things are possible in nature, that even in our advanced, technical age they still amaze us.

Nature is neat.
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I just think It's weird how they knew it was there.
Unless Murray_H's theory is right... which it probably is.
 
Datrix said:
I just think It's weird how they knew it was there.
Unless Murray_H's theory is right... which it probably is.
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sometimes when a animal is hiden in that way it just take some time to discover it

for example if you look it at it for some time maybe you will be able to find the shape of the octopus

octopus are amazing creatures,they are more that a bag of meat whit tentacles
 
Datrix said:
I just think It's weird how they knew it was there.
Unless Murray_H's theory is right... which it probably is.
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Probably? Of course it is!

I r geenus :)

It's still a scary video :(
 
Datrix said:
I just think It's weird how they knew it was there.
Unless Murray_H's theory is right... which it probably is.
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Yes. I believe it was a combination of what RJMC and Murray said. Chances are likely that they either followed the octopus to that hiding spot, or they discovered it and started filming.

You need to remember what what we're watching is 2d, and would be much harder to detect than perhaps somebody who was actually on the scene might be able to see since he is seeing in all three dimensions.
 
<RJMC> said:
octopus are amazing creatures,they are more that a bag of meat whit tentacles
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One species of octopus is more intelligent then dogs :O
 
LittleB said:
One species of octopus is more intelligent then dogs :O
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Ehh. Who cares about Octopus!

I like cuttlefish.

Cuttlefish have to be the damn most intelligent non mammal/non avian I have ever seen.
 
Raziaar said:
Ehh. Who cares about Octopus!

I like cuttlefish.

Cuttlefish have to be the damn most intelligent non mammal/non avian I have ever seen.
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How do you test animal intelligence anyway?
 
You can test primates with spacial relationship tests, creativity, etc
Not sure how you'd test a cuddlefish though :/
 
LittleB said:
How do you test animal intelligence anyway?
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It's not really a matter of testing the cuttlefish. Its a matter of observation of them. They have been shown, in nearly every single observation to have a very unique sort of awareness of what is going on around them, and the ability to adapt and display stunning examples of individualization.

Whereas with other similiar species, they might just blankly and unintelligently stare back at you. With the cuttlefish, they'll try to communicate with you, and so many other different things that hint at a great underlying degree of intelligence.
 
eatbugs said:
Dolphins are the smartest.
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That's because dolphins are mammals. Certainly going to be much smarter than Cephalapods(SP?). But yeah. Dolphins are very intelligent, even among mammal standards. Second to humans? Or are they a tad under elephants? I can't remember.

Anyways... Gonna paste this story again, since its kinda neat to read in the sense of understanding some intelligent displays of behavior cuttlefish do.

South of the city of Singapore is an island called Sentosa. Sentosa has been converted into a tourist haven, and you can reach it by cable car. The most interesting attraction there, for us, was the aquarium.
These cuttlefish live there in a huge floor-to-ceiling tank. When we first approached them, they were all lined up, hovering, facing us, watching the tourists. Some of them lurked back in the rocks, others were closer to the front of the tank, but all of them were facing the same direction. Except for the undulations of their fins and the languid posturing of their tentacles, they were motionless. Their bodies rippled with changing color patterns.
We all stood and stared at them, and they stood and stared back at us. We found the positioning of their tentacles fascinating. It looked so purposeful. We speculated as to whether they were communicating among themselves with the color changes and the tentacle positions.

One of us suggested that we try talking to them using our fingers as tentacles. Each of us came close to the glass, put our fingers in front of our faces, and arranged our fingers in gestures similar to theirs.
One cuttlefish came forward out of the crowd to meet each of us. Mike had a cuttlefish. I had a cuttlefish. Megaera had a cuttlefish. And Malachi, who is the smallest of us, had a small cuttlefish. We gestured at them and they gestured at us. "What's he saying? What's he saying?" Malachi kept asking. Malachi's cuttlefish didn't do much gesturing. It just stared at Malachi, and we had the impression that it was another child, staring like a toddler with its mouth hanging open.
Another tourist saw what we were doing, and joined us. Another cuttlefish came forward to meet her. After a moment, she darted all her fingers at it suddenly, and it jumped back. It slowly came forward to face her again. Then it shot its syphon out at her. She squealed and leapt back.
Mike's cuttlefish then shot its syphon out at Mike a few times. Mike answered by flicking his fingers at the cuttlefish. Neither of them jumped.
We finally had to leave because the power went out.

We wonder if anyone else has tried talking to the cuttlefish of Sentosa, or any other cuttlefish. Is there a way to decode their language, or teach them some code of ours?

Cuttlefish are predacious carnivorous cephalopods related to squid and octopus. Cephalopods are a class of mollusks, a phylum that also includes snails, chitons, clams and slugs. The ammonites are an extinct group of cephalopods, and nautiloids are almost extinct. We later met some nautiloids in a tank in an aquarium in Yokohama, but they showed not a glimmer of intelligence.
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Raziaar said:
That's because dolphins are mammals. Certainly going to be much smarter than Cephalapods(SP?). But yeah. Dolphins are very intelligent, even among mammal standards. Second to humans? Or are they a tad under elephants? I can't remember.

Anyways... Gonna paste this story again, since its kinda neat to read in the sense of understanding some intelligent displays of behavior cuttlefish do.
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Wow that's amazing, I wonder if you can get them as pets?
 
Then keep a birdy! They so lovable and cute and smart.
 
Wow! :O

Has anyone ever seen that David Attenborough programme where they look at species at the very bottom of the atlantic? The deepest anyone has been that is. Some of the stuff down there was crazy too. I remember seeing a squid like thing, that fired electric bolts out of the top of itself to scare away predators :O
 
The deeper you go, the more alienish the fish appear.
 
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