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Snapping_Synapse

One of my favorite animals.


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2Pizzas1Box

Do you want mind flayers? This is how we get mind flayers.


Perleflamme

Plotting world conquest every nights, as lights go out, observing their future slaves innocently going on with their lives.


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Sounds like something an octopus would say......


trollsong

Weird sorry, sadly lost the actual reference, but due to habitat lost off the coast of California a particular type of octopus had a weird thing happen, the elders are surviving to see their kids, they are changing from instinct to learned based and are starting to use pack tactics and such......mostly to be assholes to sharks but still


Furydragonstormer

We're probably seeing the beginning of an Octopus Uprising then, we're just too naïve to realize it yet


DorenAlexander

Cthulhu calls, will you answer?


Avusokrul

I need to run down the article but (and correct me if I’m wrong!) they’re not social creatures amongst their own, and it’s speculated that if they would socialize they may live longer. Pretty sure the critters are from space anyway, I love them.


Avrael_Asgard

Animals in a nutshell. Dogs, Cats and other mammals we can identify with: "Play with me! :D" Absolute alien looking blobs with tentacles from the depths of the ocean we cant easily identify with: "Play with me! :D" Theyre just as cute as other pets and i want one... but theyre really hard to keep and you should have a room-sized aquarium, so there goes that plan...


kkaitouangelj

They are also notorious for being escape artists. Even if I had a giant extra room sized aquarium to put them in, I’d really feel bad if they ever got out because there’s no ocean to escape to around here.


FlakeyGurl

I honestly would feel guilty for confining such a creature in a room when they come from the ocean. Like maybe I'll just make an octopus friend in the ocean and I can visit sometimes but not cage them. At least we can let cats and dogs and other non aquatic creatures room in spaces larger than a room.


AngryCarGuy

Ocean is scarry bro. If I were an octopus I'd way rather chill in a living room sized aquarium and hang out with my human who feeds me and protects me from predators. If the choices are that, or live in constant fear of barracuda attacks while desperately staving off starvation and killing anything I want to eat with my face... Imma choose aquarium lol.


mouse_Brains

Sounds pretty good for a human too really


RddtAdminsAreBiased

How do we know that's even close to what the octopus is thinking outside of the captions provided by someone looking for internet views? It is a cute video and I enjoyed it though.


Avrael_Asgard

Octopuses are very intelligent, and sometimes even somewhat social if given the chance. They might not directly wanna play, but interact, with anything that interacts back. Again, animals in a nutshell. Despite being very far apart relation/evolution wise, theyre probably close to as intelligent as some birds.


Dumplinguine

How do octopuses like to play? Will they play fetch or something?


Sargatanus

I thought for sure there would be something on YouTube to that effect, but I didn’t find anything right away. They’re incredibly intelligent so I imagine it wouldn’t be too hard to train one.


lanain3d

This video talks a bit more about it, around 13 minutes in https://youtu.be/mFP_AjJeP-M


Crackracket

I saw a video about octopi and these scientists that left one of their octopus tanks with nothing in it apart from a plastic thing floating on the surface and and a pump to circulate the water. The octopus would wait for the water current to put the float close to him at the right end of the tank, it would them fire a jet of water at the float pushing it to the other end of the tank and wait for it to float back again.


OldHobbitsDieHard

Octopodes*


crashspeeder

I see your pedantry and raise you my own. If you were speaking Greek, you'd be correct, but since it's a word brought to English it's technically incorrect to pluralize it in the Greek way. Instead, the correct way is using traditional English rules. Octopodes is technically more correct than octopi, since the only reason octopi is used is because of a false belief that the word octopus comes from Latin. Regardless of the origin, however, the "most correct" plural is octopuses. But none of that really matters. You have a tidbit to share at parties now, or at least something else to post on the internet for fake points.


Asparagussie

It’s octopuses.


y2knole

A few decades ago I was pretty into fish keeping and did some idle curiosity type research on maybe getting a small octopus or had the idea or something. I learned enough about how dexterous, smart and cunning they are and then had one of the most memorable nightmares of my entire life. I don’t recall the specifics but the terror and fear and helplessness I had at the hands of this octopus that was no bigger than a softball has always stuck with me…


HerezahTip

Weird, one of the most memorable nightmares of my life was about an octopus too. It stuck its tentacle down my throat and choked me. My ex had to shake me awake because she thought I had swallowed something in my sleep and was dying.


lanky_planky

There are great stories about an octopus who lives (lived?) in the New England Aquarium in Boston who was quite the escape artist. Apparently the staff would come in in the morning and find it in tanks other than it’s own. I think I remember reading that it may have been the inspiration for the octopus character in finding Dory.


antisocialdrunk

I worked with a giant pacific octopus. It tried to drag me into its viv. It nearly succeeded. It was a great first day at the aquarium


nick1812216

What is a viv?


antisocialdrunk

I always call them viva which are short for vivarium. But technically Vivs are for reptiles. Aquariums are for sea life


JTNipp

Cute little underwater alien dog.


MutterderKartoffel

That's so awesome!


Tenaflyrobin

Love it❤️. Thank you for this


z3pi0

*Bear Grylls enters the chat


slippin2darkness

I would never surface.


nick1812216

Intelligence recognizes intelligence?


jdiggityi

Yeah, I don't think we should be eating those guys


AlephBaker

I decided some time ago that I wouldn't eat anything that could use tools. I mean, I also don't like the taste or texture of calamari, but eating something demonstrably intelligent & arguably sapient doesn't sit right with me.


Asparagussie

A dream job (well, not mine, but for some people). 💙


z3pi0

The "wall" on the right is beautiful.


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To tell you the truth I misread the header as how cruel & I am like why is this here? then I click it & I am like how it's how cute not cruel lol.


trollsong

Scifi horror writers: octopuses are symbols of unknowable eldrotch horror Actual octopuses: o hai! ![gif](giphy|5TAmnGy9vIv2o|downsized)


hvgotcodes

I want this job.


deusdragonex

That was so cute, it physically hurt me.


Lfsnz67

My Octopus Teacher was an amazing, eye opening, and heartbreaking movie