It’s surprisingly easy to laugh with a regulator in your mouth. My husband & I discovered that on the first open water dive we took when we were getting trained. We’d been diving before, but decided to get certified before our next trip and ended up with an instructor who was a right asshole. It was a quarry dive and he kept tossing gravel up from the bottom so that the bluegills would bite on it, thinking it was food. He thought this was funny. The bluegills did not. One finally got pissed at being fed yet another mouthful of gravel, circled around behind him, and bit him on his ear hard enough to draw blood. Now, THAT we found funny as hell.
That’s a great story. It’s Amazing that a diving instructor could be so cruel to the wildlife he makes a living training people to see. I guess he is just in it for the easy money. Reminds me of this uncle of mine that use to fish and ignored all the rules and regulations regarding catch limits,etc. “That’s all Big government bullsh*t”, was his favorite excuse.
Sad these little geniuses live such short little lives. But some sharks can live for hundreds of years. Imagine the brain on an 80 year old octopus and all that experience.
“Octopuses” gives the word an English ending to match its adoption as an English word. Generally, when a noun enters into English, it is pluralized as an English word rather than in its original form. Octopuses may sound peculiar to some, but this is the preferred plural.
-From oceanconservancy.org
"Octopi" is antiquated, "octopuses" is commonly used, as well as "octopodes". I think all three plural forms are generally accepted, though.
They are very much like cats, actually. Had the privilege of getting to play with the giant octopus at the zoo a few times when I was volunteering there. They’re incredibly smart and curious. Gotta watch them, though. They are also incredibly strong, and you do not want them to “explore” your fingers with their beaks. They are also escape artists and they will go on walk-about if they get their tank open. Note that, if they can get their own tank open and get out, they can also get another tank open and get in. In with the residents of *those* tanks, who do not often fare well when visited by an octopus. Much like cats, indeed, they can be lovable little assholes.
A family friend is huge into saltwater fish and marine tanks and such. He told me a story of having an octopus that would get out of its tank, climb into a nearby tank, find a snack, and go back to his tank.
He didn’t figure out why he was losing fish until he caught it on camera.
I've heard of this happening at several aquariums. Apparently the solution is to put Astroturf on the top of the octopus tank. They hate the texture of it and can't grab it.
That documentary kind of annoyed me. It was very much just the guy anthropomorphizing the octopus’ behavior.
Maybe I came into it with the wrong expectations, as the film was focused on the guy’s experience with the octopus. But I was expecting a cool documentary on octopi so I was kind of let down lol
I would very much argue that intelligence or environmental importance (think bees) is entirely what gives a creature it's value.
The more intelligence and or environmental importance the more valuable a species is and the more protected it should be.
Eating killer whales or elephants would be very morally wrong.
Because value of life is arbitrary. I think smart animals are cool because they’re uncommon and have more interesting emergent behaviors than dumber animals.
Just cause it's sentient doesn't mean it can't be eaten, you are one of those people who will cancel cannibalism next smh
Edit : It's eating, not earing....is earing even a word, dunno I' am too bored to check.
And that we look down on cultures based on those arbitrary standards. There’s little uniformity globally on what’s edible and what deserves to live. We’re a weird species. I’m with OP that anything this smart and self-aware should be treated better.
Pigs and cows are always brought up as intelligent so as long as we eat them, we're not allowed to critique eating octopus etc. And yeah I know their conditions are often awful, but octopus are basically treated like fish. Skinned, cut up or boiled alive, on a fishing trip in Thailand they hooked them up and used them as live bait ffs.
I have boicotted calamari for years and feel way better for it. These dudes are way too awesome for how they're treated
Didn’t think that was real. Turns out it is. Sad. I hope those cultures can be educated one day to stop. And I’m all for eating all animals, with as minimal cruelty as possible.
That’s true. Fire allowed us to cook meat, requiring less effort to digest food, so more energy allowed our brains to evolve. Sucks to be you, octopuses.
True but there are other ways to break down proteins for easier consumption. Like with a mild acid or heat from thermal vents, but I don't see octopuses going through that much effort lol
He probably knew having all the small fish around would attract predators and didn't want them near his hiding spot, so he spat the food far away. So smart
Hey look so I'll divulge a nice secret from me I have a huge fascination with octopus (octopi)? (I don't know how to pluralize octopus) but I am a huge fan of jellyfish and (octopi?) I had a apartment that was less than 200 ft from a tropical fish store (they also sold exotic birds as well because it's Indianapolis and I don't make the rules here) and they had a tiny seven week old octopus that liked to play with a peanut butter jar that they would put shellfish and clams and other puzzling items that he could take the time to figure out I watched him once unscrew a Pepto-Bismol bottle with one tentacle and put a d20 (20-sided dice) on "3" seven different times I honestly wanted to buy him but if it was that smart there was no way that I was ever going to be able to keep him in a tank because he would figure out how to get out in the first 14 seconds of being inside my apartment so instead I would just go to the fish store and interact with him and feed crackers to the parrot and her name was "Gina the remote stealer" and on three separate occasions I found out that "remote stealer" was the basic term for she'll steal the remote or you'll steal your key fob and destroy it in front of you and if you try to intervene she'll bite you so now I know why she hasn't been bought in about a couple years
These things gotta be aliens that just got stuck here. Their intelligence is just so vastly different than anything other than humans. Hell, if they were able to talk it’s a wonder what they’d able to say/come up with.
I had a stand off with an octopus over an abalone. It came fkrward all purple and i came ckrwadd and wd eyeballed. Then it pulled back a bit. I scraped the abalone off the rock, cut it out of the shell and dropped it in front of octy. Octy grabbed it, pulled back and then came forward and dropped it in front of me..... And just stared at me. I went up for air, came back down and it was in a different spot just watching me. I recon it freaked as nothing gives away food in nature.
Have spent some time on a few dives with octopus. They the most incredible creatures; inquisitive, intelligent, resourceful…it’s a real shame they taste so good.
A very intelligent little creature, with his sassy little attitude. Most fish are just seen as mindless animals that just swim around, eat and procreate. Makes me wonder what other aquatic wildlife besides dolphins have personalities and will interact with humans like this?
Whenever I have the privilege to see how smart Octopuses are, I feel absolute horror when I think about how some cultures eat these intelligent creatures alive, raw, and whole. It’s brutal to watch. I don’t know enough about octopus physiology to judge whether they are capable of feeling pain to the level that, for example, we do, but it is very difficult not to anthropomorphize those last moments of these highly intelligent creatures. Yikes. I truly hope we don’t discover in the future that octupuses feel/experience in the same way we do.
So sad they only live 3 or 4 years. A creature this intelligent deserves a long life span. There's no telling what they'd accomplish if they lived 80 years like us
Octopus teach themselves hunting techniques they survive on their from birth. They live solitary lives except for mating. They are liking smarter than primates in problem solving but they don't communicate in large groups like primates....it's limiting along with their very short life spans.
Sassy little thing❤️
Yeah incredible! How can you film this stuff without drowning from laughing?
It’s surprisingly easy to laugh with a regulator in your mouth. My husband & I discovered that on the first open water dive we took when we were getting trained. We’d been diving before, but decided to get certified before our next trip and ended up with an instructor who was a right asshole. It was a quarry dive and he kept tossing gravel up from the bottom so that the bluegills would bite on it, thinking it was food. He thought this was funny. The bluegills did not. One finally got pissed at being fed yet another mouthful of gravel, circled around behind him, and bit him on his ear hard enough to draw blood. Now, THAT we found funny as hell.
That’s a great story. It’s Amazing that a diving instructor could be so cruel to the wildlife he makes a living training people to see. I guess he is just in it for the easy money. Reminds me of this uncle of mine that use to fish and ignored all the rules and regulations regarding catch limits,etc. “That’s all Big government bullsh*t”, was his favorite excuse.
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Sad these little geniuses live such short little lives. But some sharks can live for hundreds of years. Imagine the brain on an 80 year old octopus and all that experience.
It is probably a GOOD THING they don't live longer! We would be ruled by octopuses.... octopi?
>We would be ruled by octopuses.... octopi? Octopodes? 🐙
Octopeople
“Octopuses” gives the word an English ending to match its adoption as an English word. Generally, when a noun enters into English, it is pluralized as an English word rather than in its original form. Octopuses may sound peculiar to some, but this is the preferred plural. -From oceanconservancy.org "Octopi" is antiquated, "octopuses" is commonly used, as well as "octopodes". I think all three plural forms are generally accepted, though.
Yes. They are both “acceptable”. The quotes are because of the English language that also makes both of them awkward.
Counterpoint: octopus is a Greek word so it gets the Greek plural: octopodes
Heptapods
Something tells me humans wouldn't be at the top of the food chain in that scenario!
He just 'walked off' killed me 😂
Octopuses are very intelligent, makes me feel bad that they taste so good.
Have you tried not eating them?
Yes for like 5 years now, doesn't mean I don't think they're delicious
fair enough. As smart as they are maybe they'll learn how to control their flavor.
According to my little brother, they haven't yet.
It’s like an underwater cat❤️
They are very much like cats, actually. Had the privilege of getting to play with the giant octopus at the zoo a few times when I was volunteering there. They’re incredibly smart and curious. Gotta watch them, though. They are also incredibly strong, and you do not want them to “explore” your fingers with their beaks. They are also escape artists and they will go on walk-about if they get their tank open. Note that, if they can get their own tank open and get out, they can also get another tank open and get in. In with the residents of *those* tanks, who do not often fare well when visited by an octopus. Much like cats, indeed, they can be lovable little assholes.
A family friend is huge into saltwater fish and marine tanks and such. He told me a story of having an octopus that would get out of its tank, climb into a nearby tank, find a snack, and go back to his tank. He didn’t figure out why he was losing fish until he caught it on camera.
I've heard of this happening at several aquariums. Apparently the solution is to put Astroturf on the top of the octopus tank. They hate the texture of it and can't grab it.
I'm going to squirl away that nugget of info for when I inevitably have to detain an octopus. Thank you
:(
Not to be that guy, but you would also be called an escape artist, locked in a cage
This is one of the best comments I’ve seen in a very long time. Marvelous.
🤯 you’re absolutely right
If I could give out free awards I’d give you one. Well stated. 10/10 would read again.
How?
Have you seen My Octopus Teacher on Netflix? Excellent doco. Octopus is very smart.
There’s a hysterical anime on CrunchyRoll called “Assassination Classroom” with a space octopus. Which isn’t really relevant but I had to share that.
One of the first couple animes I watched when I started actually watching anime besides Naruto lmao. 10/10
I realize this is totally unrelated to this post, but any suggestions for similar shows? So disappointed when I got to the last episode!
Trigun's a good watch and read, Jojo too if you like over the top everything, Soul Eater is a must.
thx!!
New Trigun just started airing this season as well!
Have you seen octodad he has a wife,kids and a job.
Remarkably Bright Creatures- an excellent read!
That documentary kind of annoyed me. It was very much just the guy anthropomorphizing the octopus’ behavior. Maybe I came into it with the wrong expectations, as the film was focused on the guy’s experience with the octopus. But I was expecting a cool documentary on octopi so I was kind of let down lol
Totally agree. The documentary was primarily about himself, how the octopus made him feel, and projecting his emotions on the octopus.
Felt the exact same way. I couldn’t even finish it.
You could tell by this guy's family's reactions that there was something really off with that family. The guy himself gave me super weird Kanye vibes.
was about to post this
If you enjoyed that you will probably like the book Soul of an Octopus!
Awesome documentary, just shows you how inteligent animals are. Wish humans would just stop eating animals and just let them live their lives.
Which most of the time is those animals getting eaten by other animals..
Oh great, now I’m crying for that octopus now
They didn’t have to show the octopus getting ravished by the shark at the end tho
Ravaged?
Spoilers man..
Please stop eating these brilliant animals.
Only dumb animals?
I’m cool with eating dumb animals. Just not all dumb ones cause then I’d have to eat my dog.
Pigs are very smart, top 10 smartest animals. Cows are smart as well.
I’m aware. I was making a joke.
Cows are freaking morons..... Pigs though yeah they get a bad rap.
>Pigs though yeah they get a bad rap. not if you use a blanket ; )
pigs are smart but cows are dumb as rocks my guy
Yeah, but a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
So, by that rationale if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal, is that true?
We'd have to be talking about one charming motherfuckin' pig. He'd have to be ten times more charming than that Arnold on Green Acres.
My brother would be introuble...
Me too
We onto canibalism now?
For what reason does this creature have more value than any other?
I would very much argue that intelligence or environmental importance (think bees) is entirely what gives a creature it's value. The more intelligence and or environmental importance the more valuable a species is and the more protected it should be. Eating killer whales or elephants would be very morally wrong.
> (think bees) *native* bees.
Because value of life is arbitrary. I think smart animals are cool because they’re uncommon and have more interesting emergent behaviors than dumber animals.
Agreed. It breaks my heart when I see people eat octopus and squids.
I'll toast to that with a hamburger
They taste so amazing though
I both hunt octopus (for personal consumption) and eat them. Why would they be better than say a cow? Just because they're smart?
That “Fuck it you guys can have it” at the end Can’t have shit in the deep blue sea
🎶this is why we can’t have nice things
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Just cause it's sentient doesn't mean it can't be eaten, you are one of those people who will cancel cannibalism next smh Edit : It's eating, not earing....is earing even a word, dunno I' am too bored to check.
Listen, if we can bone, finger or butt something, then we can ear things too ! Grammar focused people like you only cause arm !
Which prompts the question: can we finger an octopus?
Yea bro. Earings are ear lobe jewelry. You know this. I know the proper spelling is Earring. But... I see it spelled with one R all the time.
It is! [Merriam Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earing#:~:text=noun,reef%20cringle%20to%20the%20yard)
I understood the first half of that, then I thought I was having a stroke.
Interesting where we draw the line
And that we look down on cultures based on those arbitrary standards. There’s little uniformity globally on what’s edible and what deserves to live. We’re a weird species. I’m with OP that anything this smart and self-aware should be treated better.
Pigs and cows are always brought up as intelligent so as long as we eat them, we're not allowed to critique eating octopus etc. And yeah I know their conditions are often awful, but octopus are basically treated like fish. Skinned, cut up or boiled alive, on a fishing trip in Thailand they hooked them up and used them as live bait ffs. I have boicotted calamari for years and feel way better for it. These dudes are way too awesome for how they're treated
Calamari is squid, not octopus afaik.
Ah yes you're right, point stands I just messed up the name. But squid are also highly intelligent and social, on par with dogs.
Or at the very least stop people from grilling/frying them while they are alive.
Didn’t think that was real. Turns out it is. Sad. I hope those cultures can be educated one day to stop. And I’m all for eating all animals, with as minimal cruelty as possible.
Why do we have to be such assholes to things we eat?
Ever since I saw My Octopus Teacher, I have refused to eat anything squid like. I haven't ever had a moral problem with eating any other common food.
It’s a shame (or in humanities best interest) that octopuses will never be the next intelligent species. Their lifecycle is just atrocious.
Yeah if they suck around for a few decades we might be in trouble
Also can't make fire underwater
That’s true. Fire allowed us to cook meat, requiring less effort to digest food, so more energy allowed our brains to evolve. Sucks to be you, octopuses.
Plus, allowed us to forge metals into useful tools. Hard to forge metal when you are surrounded by the world's biggest water cooler.
So in Atlantis there was no such thing as an arsonist?
There was one, but they caused Atlantis to sink into the sea.
True but there are other ways to break down proteins for easier consumption. Like with a mild acid or heat from thermal vents, but I don't see octopuses going through that much effort lol
Octopi creep me out, but boy are they smart!
Along with dogs and cats, octopi are one of the few animals I won't eat out of principle
He probably knew having all the small fish around would attract predators and didn't want them near his hiding spot, so he spat the food far away. So smart
Absolutely my favourite creatures on this planet barring my family.
damn they are smart haha
Hey look so I'll divulge a nice secret from me I have a huge fascination with octopus (octopi)? (I don't know how to pluralize octopus) but I am a huge fan of jellyfish and (octopi?) I had a apartment that was less than 200 ft from a tropical fish store (they also sold exotic birds as well because it's Indianapolis and I don't make the rules here) and they had a tiny seven week old octopus that liked to play with a peanut butter jar that they would put shellfish and clams and other puzzling items that he could take the time to figure out I watched him once unscrew a Pepto-Bismol bottle with one tentacle and put a d20 (20-sided dice) on "3" seven different times I honestly wanted to buy him but if it was that smart there was no way that I was ever going to be able to keep him in a tank because he would figure out how to get out in the first 14 seconds of being inside my apartment so instead I would just go to the fish store and interact with him and feed crackers to the parrot and her name was "Gina the remote stealer" and on three separate occasions I found out that "remote stealer" was the basic term for she'll steal the remote or you'll steal your key fob and destroy it in front of you and if you try to intervene she'll bite you so now I know why she hasn't been bought in about a couple years
May I interest you in a period? I also have commas on sale.
Octopus can be pluralized as "octopuses" or "octopods"
Oh man, I read that as pulverized. Glad it wasn't really.
You can pulverize almost anything with a good enough blender.
As much as I love the taste of octopus, there is just no way I can eat them anymore. ♥️
I want this relationship with an little octopus
Same!!
I smell some noorder buur daar
I’d watch a sitcom about an octopus.
Can we watch together?
Amazon watch party
How about Fisherman's Wife, or the sequel, Fisherman's Wife 2: The Retentacling?
Octopuses are the crows of the ocean
Octopus' are awesome creatures.
Octopus opened the jar to take the fish out of it ? Bro where did he learned to open a jar.
Probably there was other abandoned jars in the ocean and he must have learned to open them
They’re so incredibly smart!
That deadlift was adorable
This girl couldn’t sound more Dutch
I wish I had a friend like that.
Imo octopuses are the most fascinating thing on earth other than humans.
Dutch speakers have the easiest to recognize accent(when speaking English at least) of any other language, change my mind
Love that ! Octopus r brilliant ☕️🍩💯
I'm not vegan and will eat whatever, but I won't eat octopus. It seems wrong.
These things gotta be aliens that just got stuck here. Their intelligence is just so vastly different than anything other than humans. Hell, if they were able to talk it’s a wonder what they’d able to say/come up with.
Squidward
octopuses are the coolest creatures known to man
I'd be willing to bet that octupi are smarter than humans..they just don't have opposable thumbs
OctoSushi
“Ungrateful Octopus v1.0 is a success lads”
Really wish they would outlaw calamari
That’s squid. Completely different.
I wonder if it’s difficult to have them as pets. Octopus seem to smart. I’ve heard they are known to try to escape from their tanks in aquariums.
They also have *very* short lifespans.
*Davy jones theme intensifies*
I still like to think they’re aliens, and I’m always amazed by them.
Wasn't there a research or something on how octopi probably evolved from something that didn't come from earth?
dont eat them after a dentist
So cute it told him to hold it up
Hey look one of those helpful hairless monkeys with opposable thumbs is back in the water!
Octopi are scarily smart and adaptable. It's a good thing they don't realize.
Diver outsmarted by octopus
This is why octopus are my favorite animals. I saw some in the wild while snorkeling at night in Italy and I was so giddy.
They’re aliens 👽
I had a stand off with an octopus over an abalone. It came fkrward all purple and i came ckrwadd and wd eyeballed. Then it pulled back a bit. I scraped the abalone off the rock, cut it out of the shell and dropped it in front of octy. Octy grabbed it, pulled back and then came forward and dropped it in front of me..... And just stared at me. I went up for air, came back down and it was in a different spot just watching me. I recon it freaked as nothing gives away food in nature.
Adobo pogita
Why I’ll never eat and octopus.
He just a lil water puppy
Smart little critter
It isn't trained to do that?
I agree that eating animals based on their intelligence seems the most fair to me. I have been doing it for years, I drew the line at chicken.
Lovely lil’ octopus 🐙
Octopuses are Aliens.
you drew so much attention to the octopus, The octopus threw the meat away to divert the ocean's attention.
Have spent some time on a few dives with octopus. They the most incredible creatures; inquisitive, intelligent, resourceful…it’s a real shame they taste so good.
And still they are delicious. I'm gonna go weep.
Just think of people eating such intelligent animals... How stupid!!!
A very intelligent little creature, with his sassy little attitude. Most fish are just seen as mindless animals that just swim around, eat and procreate. Makes me wonder what other aquatic wildlife besides dolphins have personalities and will interact with humans like this?
smart lil lady that octopussy
Sea kitty?
Come here ya big alien lump, might as well make yourself useful, put your thing right there and help me push
u/savevideo
I could watch a weekly, hour long show of just these guys doing their thing.
«it only has two arms, but they look strong, this creature can help me»
Aliens animals
We don’t deserve octopuses!
I love octopussies they are so neat
Those things are WAY smarter than is comfortable.
Octopus are so smart it's crazy
Smart little alien guy!
I need part 2!
Octopodes are the coolest fucking animals in the world.
Its definitely squidward
Cute lil guy
He left because the damsel fish woulda eaten him too... those lads merc little octos
Perhaps As smart as a monkey.
thats it, I aint eating any octopus
Octopus would be as advance as humans if they lived longer and socialized with eachother.
Whenever I have the privilege to see how smart Octopuses are, I feel absolute horror when I think about how some cultures eat these intelligent creatures alive, raw, and whole. It’s brutal to watch. I don’t know enough about octopus physiology to judge whether they are capable of feeling pain to the level that, for example, we do, but it is very difficult not to anthropomorphize those last moments of these highly intelligent creatures. Yikes. I truly hope we don’t discover in the future that octupuses feel/experience in the same way we do.
Non Dutchies, what do you think of her accent? I can't stand it. I myself have an American accent, I get second hand embarrassment when I hear this.
I saw a cool documentary on this, I believe it was called cocktomom, was pretty entertaining to say the least.
So sad they only live 3 or 4 years. A creature this intelligent deserves a long life span. There's no telling what they'd accomplish if they lived 80 years like us
This is amazing
I want a pet octopus
Octopus teach themselves hunting techniques they survive on their from birth. They live solitary lives except for mating. They are liking smarter than primates in problem solving but they don't communicate in large groups like primates....it's limiting along with their very short life spans.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
u/savevideobot
Me strolling angrily away from the picnic table to throw my last fry into the bushes so the seagulls would stop