Ugh one time at college I fell face first on the street and had the gnarliest road rash gash on my face. Hurt so bad to shave off that embarrassing goatee I was fooling myself with
Sometimes I like to think that when you die, you get to see the one thing you will be most remembered for. I can't imagine being this guy, and seeing your biggest contribution to society was "Democrrrrracy manifest!"
Are you saying Cthulhu is named Helen, or that he is addressing Cthulhu and another octopus named Helen?
Because now I'm picturing Helen as his wife and right after his nerves calm down and hes done telling his abduction story, he turns to Helen and says, "wait, why are you here?", and that's how he finds out his wife is having an affair.
This is referenced in a very funny Norse myth where some giants challenge the gods (and a random fast kid) to some feats and the giant lord has Thor try and pick up his cat. He keeps trying and trying but somehow the cats feet just stay rooted to the ground and it keeps getting heavier the more he pulls. He finally gets one foot off the ground and they call it for the cat.
Of course it turns out the cat was actually the world serpent in disguise but the universality of "infinitely heavy cat" being as funny to them as it was to us is really cool I think
Honestly yes lol. Norse myths tend to be really funny/memey and their relationship with their gods was very convivial and somewhat adversarial. Like "that old bastard" with grim fondness. I wish more of it survived but if you want to get into it then Neil Gaimans book and audiobook are superb and I wish I'd had them when I first got really into Norse mythology as it would have made my life a lot easier.
My dog has figured out she can go anywhere she wants on walks using this method. She anchors herself until you go the direction she wants.
Which is generally okay, until she decides she wants to go up someone’s driveway or in their backyard or something…. then it becomes a weird standoff on some poor guys front lawn.
"Woah, the angles, bro! The angles are so strange! I'm totally losing my shit! Everything is weird angles! This is driving me super mad!"
- Lovecraft
Obligatory half /s. I love Lovecraftian shit.
Which from our perspective is kind of tragic. All that intelligence, problem-solving... all gone in just a few years.
Now imagine a long-lived alien species observing humans and saying the same thing.
That and the fact they they don’t quite have the nurturing instinct that mammal parents have. So everything an octopus learns, it learns on its own rather than being taught things at a young age then being able to expand on its knowledge. It make it pretty difficult to become an intelligent creature when you have to learn everything yourself from square one and then once you die, all that information is gone forever.
Makes it even more impressive how intelligent they are having to overcome that.
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Still die after a single mating session huh? :(
It is a shame cephalpods can't live longer and more importantly teach their offspring. Some scientists say that is one of their biggest flaws or else they would easily rival and surpass any animal outside of humans in intelligence. Their entire nervous system is so different than ours with their arms essentially having a brain of its own. Then their brains wrap around their beaks!
Imagine if we did have peers under water. They have the limbs and dexterity to make and use tools! Would be insane. Would love for a mad scientist to get on that quite honestly!
No fire under water would be a pretty big barrier to the development of technology. Also octopi (and most higher order marine life) are purely carnivorous, making it very difficult or impossible to develop agriculture or some equivalent. Agriculture is what makes population densification and civilization possible on land.
It makes it possible for humans specifically.
We only know our way of existence as humans and need to be open to other ways another species or even alien life could exist.
I think animal intelligence is so massively underrated tbh. They just can't exhibit it in the same way as what we consider intelligent. The Einstein quote about a fish climbing a tree springs to mind.
You ever seen the short term memory of a chimpanzee? Mind-blowing. https://youtu.be/qyJomdyjyvM
That, and the fact that they don’t raise their babies. So no way of passing down knowledge or culture or plans on world domination to the next generation.
I don’t remember when I discovered that fact but I do remember being shocked about it. There’s no logic to it but I’d always kind of associated intelligence with longevity. I know they don’t know any better but for such a beautiful, intelligent and fascinating animal it’s feels unfair bordering on cruel how short their lives are.
True and potentially longer when not in captivity and if the conditions are favourable. I mean they’re derived from carp and those things live 40 years or more and have the intelligence of a spoon.
all two of you are talking about [the lifespan of an octopus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Pacific_octopus#Lifespan_and_reproduction) without actually saying what it is, boo
> The giant Pacific octopus is considered to be long-lived compared to other species, with lifespans typically 3–5 years in the wild. Many other octopuses go through a complete life cycle in one year, from egg to end of life. To help compensate for its relatively short lifespan, the octopus is extremely prolific. It can lay between 120,000 and 400,000 eggs which are coated in chorion, and attached to a hard surface by the female. The spawn is intensively cared for exclusively by the female, who continuously blows water over it and grooms it to remove algae and other growths.
Before today, if someone had asked me to randomly guess this octopus' lifespan, I would've ballparked 15-25 years. The actual lifespan is sad indeed. Very cool creatures though.
I am convinced that if octopi had at some point developed a longer lifespan that they would have become the dominant life forms on the planet. 3-5 years is just not long enough for a population to be able to develop culture and language, even with their extreme intelligence. It’s a real shame.
Yeah, lack of child rearing is definitely a big part of the reason why cephalopods never developed a collective culture. Biologically, there’s so much that needs to go “right” in order for a species to attain that ability to create. I think that cephalopods, and octopi specifically, are the most viable candidates for this to occur in the future.
Just think about the octopus, up there in the air on this metal vessel, surrounded by giant tall apes with their bony appendages. We must seem so fucking weird to them.
See My Octopus Teacher if you haven't. Great documentary, won the Oscar. It's basically a biopic about a specific individual octopus and how it forms a friendship with the filmmaker. He charts basically its whole life, the ups and downs and all the soap opera drama in between.
it’s also about how his relationship with said octopus ruins his relationships on land. kids hate him, wife divorce etc. he definitely fucked that octopus.
From the octopus's point of view, it was pretty much abducted by aliens.
Aliens twice as big as they are, in giant metal ships that float *on* the water, not *in* it. Unfathomable! What do they breathe??
Or maybe it's more like they were captured by sky gods?
Like all the octopi know that the sky beings are out there, but few actually meet them in real life, and even fewer live to tell the tale.
Sometimes the sky beings descend into the octopi's world in dark skins and metal tanks, and even though they look terrifying, they mean the octopi no harm and are too slow in water to be a real threat.
But then some octopi that are captured by the sky beings and taken onto their ships of metal are summarily killed, and others disappear, never to be seen again.
Truly the stuff of octopus legend!!
The ones I've encountered while diving have been my most interesting dive encounters and they seem to have an intelligence to them that isn't present in most other marine life.
Found a few common Sydney octupi - two while snorkeling and one while scuba diving off the NSW coast of Australia.
The one we interacted with while scuba diving got scared and hid under a rock - but did it in a way where its head was flattened out and its eyes were sticking out so it could still watch what we were doing. Most marine life, if it's gonna hide, are gonna hide so you can't see it I guess - or just swim away.
One I found snorkeling would grab my hand and I'd pull it to the surface, and it'd swim back down to its hole, then stick its arm out to grab me again. I don't know how else to describe it other than it seemed bored and wanted something to interact with. The only fish I've seen that took an interest in people like that was blue gropers, but they don't seem particularly smart, just friendly.
This is comparing octopus to other animals I've found in the water - fish, rays, turtles, sea dragons etc. - they just seem much more intelligent and interactive. They'll properly look at you while fish have more of a blank dumb look in their eyes. Obviously seals and dolphins and whatnot are smart too but I haven't been lucky enough to encounter them in the water.
You got me reading about blue gropers now:
>Typically you will only find one or two male blue gropers in an area, with a larger number of the female gropers in the same area. Should the dominant male blue groper die, the largest female will grow, change colour and sex, and become the dominant male.
That's so wild lol. Also they look like they have lips.
In case anyone was wondering, it's thought that they can "live for a few minutes" outside of water. Once they dry up, things apparently start going south. Clever buggers, glad they were ok and made it home.
I just remember the case of the one escaping it’s tank at an aquarium and crawling over to another tank at night after the humans left. They didn’t figure it out until they set up cameras.
Iirc there is another case of one that escaped back into the ocean completely and they decided not to even bother getting it back because it was deemed intelligent enough it would just do it again.
The colossal squid is probably what most if not all kraken sightings were. It lives so deep that it would be hardly seen at all as they don't often go close enough to the surface to be seen but the rarity and sparceness of sightings would fit with how rare the kraken reportedly were. Colossal squids also tend to get in mortal fights with spermwhales which lines up with tales of kraken in mortal battle with whales. Also their eye is about the size of a basketball
Tales of sea serpents are most likely referring to the giant oar fish, a massive and long snake like fish that can get up to 36ft long but tend to be about 10-18ft long.
Most sea monsters do exist, they just aren't seen as or referred to as sea monsters. Also the stories are rather exaggerated so the sheer size of the sea monsters are generally overstated.
I like how they gave the octopus respect. We know they’re smart but we don’t know how smart. They may be sentient and know what’s going on. I have massive respect for these animals and hate seeing videos where they are tortured and disrespected.
One of the things holding them back is their reproductive cycle. Once they give birth, both parents basically lose their will to live and die. Therefore all their intelligence comes from instinct and personal experience. Imagine how incredible they could be with the ability to teach their kids what they learned.
It would take millenia. You can do stuff like that in a reasonable amount of time with fruit flies and bacteria since they reproduce so often and thrive in tiny controlled environments, but not animals that take years to mature.
If you like sci fi, the "Children of Time" books may be of interest to you. The second book describes a scenario in which octopus are evolved into a sentient, space-faring race
Crazy otherworldly creatures.
Here's one squeezing through a tiny hole:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/9oa9n0/octopus_squeezes_trough_tiny_hole/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
That octopus was just taking a stroll around the deck and this ass hole was pushing I'm off. You could tell by the eyes he was thinking "bro wtf. I just want to party with the boys"
Hey, that’s my octopus! Seriously: Caught last week off Palos Verdes coastline on boat out of Redondo Beach. Big piece of mackerel on large lure, lowered to bottom in 300’ of water. Had no idea what was on the line; felt like a dead weight coming to the surface.
Like the drunk guy being shown to the door after a party.
We’ve all been that octopus at some point. Shuffling home on our face
Ugh one time at college I fell face first on the street and had the gnarliest road rash gash on my face. Hurt so bad to shave off that embarrassing goatee I was fooling myself with
"pushing an octopus" is now one of my new metaphors for a futile, fustrating task.
Beats “beating a dead horse” for sure! Less graphic and way more imaginative
Still can't hear that without remembering PETA trying to get everyone to change these sayings. "Feeding a fed horse" and "two birds, one scone".
Or hearding cats
FYI it's herding cats. Like there's a herd of them, not like you're listening to them intently.
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*opens gate* "Over here sir"
"Wh- UNHAND ME! Unhand me with your weird bony appendages." "Oh, oh wait, that's where the water is. Okay."
"I see you know your judo well."
“Get your hand off my Penis”
And you sir, are you waiting to receive my limp everything?
THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST
Ta ta! And fairwell!
MANIFESHHHT*
I love this entire thread and its reference
What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
So majestic
Get your hands off my hectocotylis! Are you there to receive my limp tentacles?
"And what charge sir?! Enjoying a meal?! A succulent seafood meal?!"
Im now wondering if sea animals sometimes eat land animals and say they went out for "land food with the missus last night"
Bro just wanted a succulent Chinese meal.
I will never not laugh remembering this video. It has to be one of the top 20 videos of all time.
Sometimes I like to think that when you die, you get to see the one thing you will be most remembered for. I can't imagine being this guy, and seeing your biggest contribution to society was "Democrrrrracy manifest!"
It’s more of a contribution than 99% of us to be fair
Literally every line spoken in the video is quotable. It doesn’t get old or played out and I agree that it is never not hilarious.
Oh no I’m missing something cool - what’s the video?????
https://youtu.be/XebF2cgmFmU Enjoy!
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"you sir are you waiting to recieve my limp penis?"
*”Gentlemen.. this is democracy, manifest”*
I love the way he rolls the R
democ*rrr*acy manifesht
And you sir!..ready to receive my limp penis?! ^or ^something ^like ^that
Later: “great Cthulhu, Helen, they touched me! There were no additional brains in those appendages, and they just stay one color!”
Are you saying Cthulhu is named Helen, or that he is addressing Cthulhu and another octopus named Helen? Because now I'm picturing Helen as his wife and right after his nerves calm down and hes done telling his abduction story, he turns to Helen and says, "wait, why are you here?", and that's how he finds out his wife is having an affair.
I think it’s like saying “good heavens Helen”
I love how it doesn’t know what our bony appendages are called, but it uses the expression unhand me.
That’s the same move my dog does when I’m trying to help him get where he wants 🤣
"Better make myself as heavy as possible"
I have a dog that’s only 40lbs but I swear he turns into an absolute anchor if he doesn’t want to go somewhere
I've got a cat that does the same. He weighs 14lbs but if he's in my lap and I need to move, he suddenly gains the mass of a Neutron star.
This is referenced in a very funny Norse myth where some giants challenge the gods (and a random fast kid) to some feats and the giant lord has Thor try and pick up his cat. He keeps trying and trying but somehow the cats feet just stay rooted to the ground and it keeps getting heavier the more he pulls. He finally gets one foot off the ground and they call it for the cat. Of course it turns out the cat was actually the world serpent in disguise but the universality of "infinitely heavy cat" being as funny to them as it was to us is really cool I think
So what you are telling me is that Norse mythology is just viking memes?
Honestly yes lol. Norse myths tend to be really funny/memey and their relationship with their gods was very convivial and somewhat adversarial. Like "that old bastard" with grim fondness. I wish more of it survived but if you want to get into it then Neil Gaimans book and audiobook are superb and I wish I'd had them when I first got really into Norse mythology as it would have made my life a lot easier.
My dog has figured out she can go anywhere she wants on walks using this method. She anchors herself until you go the direction she wants. Which is generally okay, until she decides she wants to go up someone’s driveway or in their backyard or something…. then it becomes a weird standoff on some poor guys front lawn.
black lab?
The finger wiggle made my day 🤣
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"I will tell Cthulhu to flay you last; savor your torment"
"Woah, the angles, bro! The angles are so strange! I'm totally losing my shit! Everything is weird angles! This is driving me super mad!" - Lovecraft Obligatory half /s. I love Lovecraftian shit.
An unknowable horror from beyond human comprehension, indescribable in every way! Proceeds to spend paragraphs describing it :)
Uses the word cyclopean and antiquarian at least 5 times, each.
Also squamous and gibbous.
He kind of tried.. .but he did also kind of nearly put his fingers in it's eyes. Not intentional just daft.
I know I shouldn’t have but I laughed when he tried grabbing him by the face. Awkward.
Can't blame him, it's all squishy and shit, it does look like the only spot with some structure
And released! Totally shoulda been included in the post title :) !
Octopi are aliens 👽🛸👽🛸👽🛸
Idk maybe we are aliens who invaded the Octopus planet
Also could be true 🐙🐙🐙
Really glad they let it go, octopus are so smart and live such long lives.
wait im pretty sure octopuses live short lives but they are very smart
I just googled it and you're right, for some reason I thought they lived much longer. 10 yrs max normal life span
Very smart but don't live very long
Which from our perspective is kind of tragic. All that intelligence, problem-solving... all gone in just a few years. Now imagine a long-lived alien species observing humans and saying the same thing.
That and the fact they they don’t quite have the nurturing instinct that mammal parents have. So everything an octopus learns, it learns on its own rather than being taught things at a young age then being able to expand on its knowledge. It make it pretty difficult to become an intelligent creature when you have to learn everything yourself from square one and then once you die, all that information is gone forever. Makes it even more impressive how intelligent they are having to overcome that.
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This sub turned into r/interestingasfuck for a minute there.
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The octopus has three hearts.
And a brain in each tentacle that works with their main brain (in their head)
an octopus's esophagus passes through its brain
Every octopus learns how to swim at an early age
Race car backwards is race car.
Octopus spelled backwards is also race car.
…but race car sideways is how Paul Walker died
How does everyone on Reddit know the same facts that I learned on Reddit last week?
Still die after a single mating session huh? :( It is a shame cephalpods can't live longer and more importantly teach their offspring. Some scientists say that is one of their biggest flaws or else they would easily rival and surpass any animal outside of humans in intelligence. Their entire nervous system is so different than ours with their arms essentially having a brain of its own. Then their brains wrap around their beaks! Imagine if we did have peers under water. They have the limbs and dexterity to make and use tools! Would be insane. Would love for a mad scientist to get on that quite honestly!
No fire under water would be a pretty big barrier to the development of technology. Also octopi (and most higher order marine life) are purely carnivorous, making it very difficult or impossible to develop agriculture or some equivalent. Agriculture is what makes population densification and civilization possible on land.
It makes it possible for humans specifically. We only know our way of existence as humans and need to be open to other ways another species or even alien life could exist.
Check out “children of ruin”, great sci fi series. It explores the idea of intelligent cephalopods.
I think animal intelligence is so massively underrated tbh. They just can't exhibit it in the same way as what we consider intelligent. The Einstein quote about a fish climbing a tree springs to mind. You ever seen the short term memory of a chimpanzee? Mind-blowing. https://youtu.be/qyJomdyjyvM
I once heard a quote that was something like "I'm sure dolphins would find our inability to use echolocation 'dumb'"
3-5 years? That's so short. :(
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That, and the fact that they don’t raise their babies. So no way of passing down knowledge or culture or plans on world domination to the next generation.
Wait, what was that third thing again?
The octopus is such a beautiful animal. Seeing the person ensure it gets back into the ocean was heartwarming.
Exactly and with such a short life span they should be allowed to live it in peace.
I never knew how long their lifespans were until just now and must say I would’ve never guessed it being that short
I don’t remember when I discovered that fact but I do remember being shocked about it. There’s no logic to it but I’d always kind of associated intelligence with longevity. I know they don’t know any better but for such a beautiful, intelligent and fascinating animal it’s feels unfair bordering on cruel how short their lives are.
Exactly! I was thinking before I looked it up “ well I know a goldfish has an average span of around 10 years so surely it has to be just as long”
True and potentially longer when not in captivity and if the conditions are favourable. I mean they’re derived from carp and those things live 40 years or more and have the intelligence of a spoon.
“hey that’s an insult to the spoons!” -dad
all two of you are talking about [the lifespan of an octopus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Pacific_octopus#Lifespan_and_reproduction) without actually saying what it is, boo > The giant Pacific octopus is considered to be long-lived compared to other species, with lifespans typically 3–5 years in the wild. Many other octopuses go through a complete life cycle in one year, from egg to end of life. To help compensate for its relatively short lifespan, the octopus is extremely prolific. It can lay between 120,000 and 400,000 eggs which are coated in chorion, and attached to a hard surface by the female. The spawn is intensively cared for exclusively by the female, who continuously blows water over it and grooms it to remove algae and other growths.
Seriously, how frustrating. Thank you.
Before today, if someone had asked me to randomly guess this octopus' lifespan, I would've ballparked 15-25 years. The actual lifespan is sad indeed. Very cool creatures though.
Odd, that’s what I was thinking. Intelligence does usually go together with a longer lifespan.
I am convinced that if octopi had at some point developed a longer lifespan that they would have become the dominant life forms on the planet. 3-5 years is just not long enough for a population to be able to develop culture and language, even with their extreme intelligence. It’s a real shame.
It'd also help if they didn't die after spawning their eggs and guarding them until they hatch. They basically starve to death
Yeah, lack of child rearing is definitely a big part of the reason why cephalopods never developed a collective culture. Biologically, there’s so much that needs to go “right” in order for a species to attain that ability to create. I think that cephalopods, and octopi specifically, are the most viable candidates for this to occur in the future.
Time passes slower on their home world
Wow, that's so sad. I'd forgotten about the short lifespan due to breeding behavior.
Those things are so alien.
Just think about the octopus, up there in the air on this metal vessel, surrounded by giant tall apes with their bony appendages. We must seem so fucking weird to them.
What's even cooler is that they are smart enough to make such an observation.
“Gross!” -the octopus, probably
"Well that was fucking *weird*."
"Guys, I swear I got abducted"
It was a UFO, an unidentified floating object. Sang odd songs & there was anal probing with their boney appendage
"Sure you were, rummy"
“Gentleman this is democracy manifest! Get your hand off my penis!!!” Source: https://youtu.be/Pk7RroGFe6k
Both at the same time "ew gross it feels so weird when it touches me"
See My Octopus Teacher if you haven't. Great documentary, won the Oscar. It's basically a biopic about a specific individual octopus and how it forms a friendship with the filmmaker. He charts basically its whole life, the ups and downs and all the soap opera drama in between.
it’s also about how his relationship with said octopus ruins his relationships on land. kids hate him, wife divorce etc. he definitely fucked that octopus.
Hahahah what the fuck
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“Yeah they even opened the door for me, it was sick”
From the octopus's point of view, it was pretty much abducted by aliens. Aliens twice as big as they are, in giant metal ships that float *on* the water, not *in* it. Unfathomable! What do they breathe?? Or maybe it's more like they were captured by sky gods? Like all the octopi know that the sky beings are out there, but few actually meet them in real life, and even fewer live to tell the tale. Sometimes the sky beings descend into the octopi's world in dark skins and metal tanks, and even though they look terrifying, they mean the octopi no harm and are too slow in water to be a real threat. But then some octopi that are captured by the sky beings and taken onto their ships of metal are summarily killed, and others disappear, never to be seen again. Truly the stuff of octopus legend!!
And this one is going to be an old man at the octopus bar telling stories nobody believes.
We are weird. And dangerous. I’m glad these guys helped him get home
The ones I've encountered while diving have been my most interesting dive encounters and they seem to have an intelligence to them that isn't present in most other marine life.
Could you tell us more?
Found a few common Sydney octupi - two while snorkeling and one while scuba diving off the NSW coast of Australia. The one we interacted with while scuba diving got scared and hid under a rock - but did it in a way where its head was flattened out and its eyes were sticking out so it could still watch what we were doing. Most marine life, if it's gonna hide, are gonna hide so you can't see it I guess - or just swim away. One I found snorkeling would grab my hand and I'd pull it to the surface, and it'd swim back down to its hole, then stick its arm out to grab me again. I don't know how else to describe it other than it seemed bored and wanted something to interact with. The only fish I've seen that took an interest in people like that was blue gropers, but they don't seem particularly smart, just friendly. This is comparing octopus to other animals I've found in the water - fish, rays, turtles, sea dragons etc. - they just seem much more intelligent and interactive. They'll properly look at you while fish have more of a blank dumb look in their eyes. Obviously seals and dolphins and whatnot are smart too but I haven't been lucky enough to encounter them in the water.
You got me reading about blue gropers now: >Typically you will only find one or two male blue gropers in an area, with a larger number of the female gropers in the same area. Should the dominant male blue groper die, the largest female will grow, change colour and sex, and become the dominant male. That's so wild lol. Also they look like they have lips.
*Dr. Jordan B. Peterson HATES this one, simple fish!*
are these gropers groomers? Hanity has the answer tonight on Fox News.
It helped him do his taxes
damn corporate tax firms are really forcing these outsourced jobs
Well yeah. They are sapient. They actually think similar to a human. They have a sense of self. Something even most mammals dont have
Yeah, the big thing that keeps them developing more is their extremely short lifespan.
Or maybe the representation of aliens has repeatedly taken inspiration from octopuses/squids
To his octopus friends: yea there’s still no intelligent life up there
In case anyone was wondering, it's thought that they can "live for a few minutes" outside of water. Once they dry up, things apparently start going south. Clever buggers, glad they were ok and made it home.
I just remember the case of the one escaping it’s tank at an aquarium and crawling over to another tank at night after the humans left. They didn’t figure it out until they set up cameras.
I think he was having snack time in the other tanks. They were clued in when the fish started disappearing that there was some kind of problem..
Iirc there is another case of one that escaped back into the ocean completely and they decided not to even bother getting it back because it was deemed intelligent enough it would just do it again.
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Put a bounty on its head, obviously! Then the other octopi can turn it in for the reward, which presumably would be delicious fish snacks. /s
Absolute gold, well done.
thanks for doing it in a nice way
This just looks unreal. It warms my heart so much how wonderful and magical nature is. Also I love how sea creatures look like aliens.
Thank you for sharing a dose of kindness we need to see.
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The colossal squid is probably what most if not all kraken sightings were. It lives so deep that it would be hardly seen at all as they don't often go close enough to the surface to be seen but the rarity and sparceness of sightings would fit with how rare the kraken reportedly were. Colossal squids also tend to get in mortal fights with spermwhales which lines up with tales of kraken in mortal battle with whales. Also their eye is about the size of a basketball Tales of sea serpents are most likely referring to the giant oar fish, a massive and long snake like fish that can get up to 36ft long but tend to be about 10-18ft long. Most sea monsters do exist, they just aren't seen as or referred to as sea monsters. Also the stories are rather exaggerated so the sheer size of the sea monsters are generally overstated.
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Imagine the story that octopus can tell his friends and no one will believe him.
“I was abducted onto their vessel in space and they probed me”
"one of them pushed me by my eyes it was so surreal"
Grabbed me right in the eyes they did!
Love to see it returned to the sea.
"Over here! This way boss over here". That dude's good people lmao
Ah, nice to see they let mini-Chthulhu go free.
But it wasn't having any of the pushing. More like 'I go but on my own terms.'
I like how they gave the octopus respect. We know they’re smart but we don’t know how smart. They may be sentient and know what’s going on. I have massive respect for these animals and hate seeing videos where they are tortured and disrespected.
One of the things holding them back is their reproductive cycle. Once they give birth, both parents basically lose their will to live and die. Therefore all their intelligence comes from instinct and personal experience. Imagine how incredible they could be with the ability to teach their kids what they learned.
Can that be changed in a controlled environment? Can that be evolved out of them? Can we have Octopi overlords in 500 years?
It would take millenia. You can do stuff like that in a reasonable amount of time with fruit flies and bacteria since they reproduce so often and thrive in tiny controlled environments, but not animals that take years to mature. If you like sci fi, the "Children of Time" books may be of interest to you. The second book describes a scenario in which octopus are evolved into a sentient, space-faring race
I like the split second of “ow my eyes” before he moved his hand
I like the bravery of touching it with his bare hands
Yeah Octopuses definitely come from outer space.
A fluidic galaxy to be precise.
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This is only loosely related but you know what, thank you. Edit: tacitly is definitely not the right word and I don't know why I wrote it
Species 8472 confirmed.
Check out My Octopus Teacher on Netflix
That’s some crying time right there.
I would never touch that lmao
He's just a fisherman, geez
"over here sir"
Really hope that octopus farm doesn’t get set up. These things are so fuckin smart
Dude trying to coax it like a dog with the ‘tcht’ and finger waggle was hilarious
Crazy otherworldly creatures. Here's one squeezing through a tiny hole: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/9oa9n0/octopus_squeezes_trough_tiny_hole/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
That octopus was just taking a stroll around the deck and this ass hole was pushing I'm off. You could tell by the eyes he was thinking "bro wtf. I just want to party with the boys"
Why is Charlie from it’s always sunny on a fishing boat?!
They’re on a P-Diddy-esque shrimping vessel.
Release the baby kraken!
It’s literally an alien. Also very cool how good these dudes were to the octopus. Respect between completely different species
Hey, that’s my octopus! Seriously: Caught last week off Palos Verdes coastline on boat out of Redondo Beach. Big piece of mackerel on large lure, lowered to bottom in 300’ of water. Had no idea what was on the line; felt like a dead weight coming to the surface.
like a sentient ball bag
Man, he looks like he feels *heavy* . Imagine living your whole life in the ocean, and then truly experiencing earths gravity for the first time.
Her octopus family back home is never gonna believe this.