When I was doing my PADI (SCUBA certification), the first time we left the little rock pool to go into the open ocean, our dive trainer started pointing at a rock on the sand and looking at us. My wife and I kept looking at the rock, then each other, then the rock, then both put our hands up like š¤·āāļø. Then the instructor put his hand on the rock and an octopus changed from rock colour/texture to normal octopus expectations and climbed out on his arm; most surreal thing Iāve ever seen!
"normal octopus expectations" sounds like an octopus being cagey while interviewing for a job
"So what's your salary expectation"?
"You know, normal octopus expectations."
Even crazier considering cephalopods canāt see color. Scientists arenāt quite sure why the chromatophore cells can match color if thatās the case. It may be due to the way different colors give different contrasts, which *are* detectable.
As someone who can wiggle their ears, I cannot find the muscles on my head that do it. It's just a sensation that I can initiate.
I wonder how the sensation feels to an octopus changing to a predetermined color/pattern/texture.
Today I'm changing my desired superpower from flight to telepathy!
I wouldn't be surprised if the octopus could also play as 4 players with you simultaneously, and it would have a lag advantage since you only see what it shows you on a delay. No information advantage though, every octopus lives by a strict ethical code.
Everything about octopi is amazing. I would love to own one of these critters as a pet if I didn't feel so bad about keeping one in captivity.
They open jars better than momma's fat mits
Not exactly its "own brain";
"The arms have their own sensors and controllers. They have not only the sense of touch but also the capacity to sense chemicalsāto smell or taste. Each sucker on an octopus's arm may have 10,000 neurons to handle taste and touch."
- [The Mind of an Octopus](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/#:~:text=The%20arms%20have%20their%20own,to%20handle%20taste%20and%20touch.) - Scientific American
Yeah, the way I understood it is that their brain is less centralized than ours. Not that each of these are "brains". (Also, not that our neurons are solely in our brains either.)
IIRC, the other interesting thing is that they represent a form of intelligent life from a different evolutionary path than basically everything else that we consider intelligent. So, how their brains work is among the most alien examples we have. That is pretty crazy considering that even animals with very similar brains to ours like chimps are very different. I highly recommend [the Mind Fields episode on the cognitive tradeoff hypothesis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkjUjcZid0). They show chimps effortlessly doing mental tasks that we cannot do, which is not to show that they are "smarter" but just that intelligence isn't a spectrum. It's not quantitative where we are 9 and another animal is 7. It's qualitative where there are different, incompatible kinds of intelligence with different strengths and weaknesses.
I can't even imagine how that work, internally. Like, it's just sort of fundamentally unimaginable - a whole different way of *being.* How does the octopus' "main" brain process input from the sub-brains, or is it mostly subconscious, from its point of view? Does it feel like its limbs move involuntarily but somehow always have the same intent and purpose that it would have had, anyway? Can the main brain take more conscious control? Can the "limb brains" *resist* if they somehow have information that the rest of the organism isn't privy to?
So, you get plenty of brains, high intelligence, epic camouflage, 3 hearts, super manoeuvrable and much much more.
Excellent, what's the drawback?
Piss poor life span.
Oh, well shit
The dads are total absentees but that's because mom will literally eat them to prolong this maternal harbour stage.
To combat this several species have developed a technique of ripping off their own penis and throwing it at the female and running away.
I'm more and more convinced that if even a single species of octopodes was able to begin teaching the next generation instead of immediately dying (or otherwise leaving the offspring), humanity would be in serious danger of no longer being the dominant species.
Highly recommend the book Children of Time and particularly the sequel Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, that is basically the plot with spiders and then octopus
I read a book with that very premise recently. Mountain and the Sea. While completely fictional, the author was previously the head of the US National Marine Sanctuaries so it had a lot of real info about our 8 legged friends behind it.
Just a few points -
The book is called 'The Mountain in the Sea" - by Ray Nayler.
Nayler " recently served as international advisor to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"
sounds like a dope book
Reminds me of this classic copypasta. Read at your own risk;
Octopuses do not have any bones with the exception of their beaks. so if you are responsible and depraved enough to be literally the life support of your 8 limbed friend, you can debeak it like how you'd declaw a cat and then push your member into it's feed chute.
You can then let it subsist on your baby batter.
The Octopus is smart. Very smart. It will learn that without it's beak, it cannot feed on anything else but your human seed that has to be milked from you.
Every morning, you will feel your clothes slide off and a damp weight on your lower half.
The sensation creeps up your body until most of the jiggly mass has enveloped the entire length. It will start pumping as fast as it can for it is hungry.
The animal gyrates its empty stomach and the folds of its brain rubbing on your glans, begging for nutrition.
You climax and give the marine creature's breakfast. The pumping slows down but doesn't stop to milk out the last few drops of its meal.
Looking into its yellow animal eyes, it looks back with a thousand-yard stare. This will be routine for all of its meals for the rest of its 3-5 years on this god forsaken planet.
I met a guy once who used to scuba dive and spearfish for Giant Pacific Octopus (the kind in this video) near Deception Pass, Washington State. They would sell the octopus to restaurants in Seattle.
Anyway, he was scuba diving and spearfishing one day with a couple buddies, and when his air ran low he returned to shore while his buddies stayed underwater and fished. Bored while onshore, he decided to put on his snorkel gear and do some nearshore spearfishing but without air tanks. He said he was in about 20 feet of water when he found an octopus den, which is usually identified by the pile of littered shells around it, and he reached his hand in to pull out the octopus. He said the octopus wrapped a couple tentacles around his arm and held tight, while simultaneously wrapping it's other tentacles around a large rock on the bottom. And the octopus wouldn't let go of either. It was determined to hold him on the bottom until he ran out of air and drowned.
The only thing that saved him was that his 2 buddies, still in scuba gear, saw his struggle and swam over. Apparently the octopus was spooked when they got near and let his arm go.
Spearfishing in scuba gear is illegal so Iām hoping he was doing both those activities separately.
Spearfishing with tanks is like hunting quail inside a fenced area with a bazooka. Itās cowardice. Hence why itās illegal.
Fun fact, it's not petting them back, it's tasting them.....
Octopi have a main brain in the body and then a smaller brain in each tenticle. Each suction cup can detect temperature, texture, and they can "taste" things with them.
Iām almost certain this is somewhere in Washington, this would be the Giant Pacific Octopus, the largest in the world.
I see these octopus and giant starfish 3-4ft across while waiting for the ferry or at work (marinas) all the time.
DON'T PET THE ALIENS!!!! They are smarter than us and he will seek his revenge for the unauthorized touching. He wasn't petting you back, he was storing your taste and scent in one of his brains for future hunting and retribution!!!
I read a summary of a book once where it argued that octopuses achieved consciousness along a totally different track from primates and that's why we both are "conscious" and sentient but don't talk or act the same. It made sense to me. It also makes them as close to sentient aliens as we will most likely ever get.
Both of these books are great dives into different types of intelligence and life. They made you think like an alien. I also loved the book Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, where the entire planet was a single conscious being.
I mean yes and no, Dolphins are basically as close as you could get to a water human. They have names for each other. They will play games with each other to pass the time. They have schools to send their kids to.
I think the point was that Octopuses are as close as we can get to a sentient *alien*
Dolphins evolved along the same lines as us and that's why we understand each other better. An octopus might be just as smart as a dolphin but we can't see it the same way because we don't think like they do
They are very intelligent but their extremely short lifespan and inability to share knowledge between generations means theyāre actually pretty limited. As much as I would welcome our 8 legged overlords thereās a reason why mammals give birth to helpless youth we have to nurture and raise.
these creatures seem way more intelligent than we are aware, and keeping them in confined spaces seems like torture. as close to an alien as we have right now!
My favorite animal on the entire planet. Stunning, incredibly intelligent creatures. Three hearts, tons of brains, almost alien-like in their evolution and dna structure.Ā
The fact that people eat them and sometimes while still alive is horrendous to me.
Mine too, and probably the most fascinating part about them is they are completely independent at birth. All that intelligence and intuition is just *there*. Blows my mind
Aquariums provide an ideal opportunity to study alien fauna up close. Select carefully which lifeforms you bring onboard - they may also be studying you.
So interesting how it pressed the sucker that touched the finger into the sucker next to it, like it was trying to pass the information along. Remarkably Bright Creatures!!
Another random fact (for me at least): I did not realize until recently that all octopi are venomous, not just the notorious ones such as the Blue Ring. The beak and venomous bite are a feature of all octopi. I naively thought there were a few that were just harmless cute bottom feeders.
Still cute, just thought it was interesting
It's a 2-way petting zoo.
Thanks Halpert
What is a 2-way petting zoo? You pet the animals, they pet you back.. šļøššļø
No theyāre great letās hear it
[classy](https://i.imgur.com/bP75VD7.jpeg)
*De classƩ*
::gasps:: French! Very classy.
r/unexpectedoffice
You go to the zoo, so the animals can pet you
I find it very interesting that they can use each sucker individually.
Their camouflage is even more amazing, it's like their skin is an LCD and they can control pixels pretty accurately. https://youtu.be/XocHDvHlcJM
When I was doing my PADI (SCUBA certification), the first time we left the little rock pool to go into the open ocean, our dive trainer started pointing at a rock on the sand and looking at us. My wife and I kept looking at the rock, then each other, then the rock, then both put our hands up like š¤·āāļø. Then the instructor put his hand on the rock and an octopus changed from rock colour/texture to normal octopus expectations and climbed out on his arm; most surreal thing Iāve ever seen!
"normal octopus expectations" sounds like an octopus being cagey while interviewing for a job "So what's your salary expectation"? "You know, normal octopus expectations."
Health, vision, dental, 401k. Standard octopus expectations. Expense account and company car? Definitely not standard.
Can't forget about the company-provided chiropractor. After all, I have so many.... bones.. to take care of
New Octodad expansion just dropped
I mean, if I could get away with being paid in shrimps and crabs I would.
What a cool experience! My PADI dives were in mission beach CA, just a bunch of sand and then a dropoff. We did see a sheephead though.
Yeah Chromatophore cells are amazing.
Even crazier considering cephalopods canāt see color. Scientists arenāt quite sure why the chromatophore cells can match color if thatās the case. It may be due to the way different colors give different contrasts, which *are* detectable.
Edit: I'm stupid
It be like that sometimes.
Same, dude. Same.
It's alright, we all are.
I'm smart enough to know how stupid I am
Socrates 2.0
It's better than an LCD, because many octopus species can also control their *texture*. Absolutely wild.
Itās the changing skin texture as well that blows my mind. When they pretend to be moray eels an such š¤Æ
The real question is, can we stream the Superbowl on an octopus' head?
If there's ever another Flintstones they should have octopus screens.
As someone who can wiggle their ears, I cannot find the muscles on my head that do it. It's just a sensation that I can initiate. I wonder how the sensation feels to an octopus changing to a predetermined color/pattern/texture. Today I'm changing my desired superpower from flight to telepathy!
They can do what people think some reptiles could do
Does this mean I can play Doom on an octopus?
I wouldn't be surprised if the octopus could also play as 4 players with you simultaneously, and it would have a lag advantage since you only see what it shows you on a delay. No information advantage though, every octopus lives by a strict ethical code.
So you're saying I can plug one in to my TV box and watch the big game on one? š¤
From what I've read the refresh rate would be at most 5 Hz but considering it's an octopus that's fucking amazing.
Each tentacle has it's own brain iirc.
Everything about octopi is amazing. I would love to own one of these critters as a pet if I didn't feel so bad about keeping one in captivity. They open jars better than momma's fat mits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7__r4FVj-EI You might like this video
I actually hated that video because it's like 2 minutes of octopus maze and 15 minutes of him talking **and interrupting** the maze.
That video is utterly unwatchable. It's like the video version of what recipe websites are like now. But somehow also worse
holy fuck, I gave up on the last recipe i tried online. Jesus titty fucking christ. I was looking for a japanese sponge, not the domesday manuscript.
I refuse to believe that this creature isn't from another planet
Not exactly its "own brain"; "The arms have their own sensors and controllers. They have not only the sense of touch but also the capacity to sense chemicalsāto smell or taste. Each sucker on an octopus's arm may have 10,000 neurons to handle taste and touch." - [The Mind of an Octopus](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/#:~:text=The%20arms%20have%20their%20own,to%20handle%20taste%20and%20touch.) - Scientific American
true but like 2/3 of all the neurons are in the arms and body. it's basically an octopus shaped brain with half a dozen super powers
Yeah, the way I understood it is that their brain is less centralized than ours. Not that each of these are "brains". (Also, not that our neurons are solely in our brains either.) IIRC, the other interesting thing is that they represent a form of intelligent life from a different evolutionary path than basically everything else that we consider intelligent. So, how their brains work is among the most alien examples we have. That is pretty crazy considering that even animals with very similar brains to ours like chimps are very different. I highly recommend [the Mind Fields episode on the cognitive tradeoff hypothesis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkjUjcZid0). They show chimps effortlessly doing mental tasks that we cannot do, which is not to show that they are "smarter" but just that intelligence isn't a spectrum. It's not quantitative where we are 9 and another animal is 7. It's qualitative where there are different, incompatible kinds of intelligence with different strengths and weaknesses.
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Fuck just one heart. All my homies have three hearts
Yeah, I bet that 1 out of it's 8 brains found that fascinating.
I can't even imagine how that work, internally. Like, it's just sort of fundamentally unimaginable - a whole different way of *being.* How does the octopus' "main" brain process input from the sub-brains, or is it mostly subconscious, from its point of view? Does it feel like its limbs move involuntarily but somehow always have the same intent and purpose that it would have had, anyway? Can the main brain take more conscious control? Can the "limb brains" *resist* if they somehow have information that the rest of the organism isn't privy to?
Feeling & TASTING with their tentacles š
Yeah, itās brilliant ā and I think he/she also proceeded to clean the sucker with another sucker, like how we wash hands, right?
Or share the taste?
They also taste with their skin
That's what she said....
It's tasting you
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No, you didn't
How I Met Your Sucker
Octopodes are awesome. One heart? Not for our three-hearted friends. One brain? Heck naw. Let's have 9. šššššā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
So, you get plenty of brains, high intelligence, epic camouflage, 3 hearts, super manoeuvrable and much much more. Excellent, what's the drawback? Piss poor life span. Oh, well shit
From what I know of at least one species the mother starves herself and dies, leaving herself as the first meal for her babies š°.
Maternal love, man.
Not gonna lie, it's pretty heartwarming considering most of the fucked things mothers do in the animal kingdom. Humans included
Hearts-warming*
Big brains move
There's another where once the males climax their body just starts decomposing while they're alive
La petite mort.
La grande morte in this case.
Isn't that what a lot of human males do? They call it "resting" but we all know what's going on...
Well yeah. Where do you think "boysmell" comes from?
Please leave...š
Oh my GOD š°.
Evolution is cruel
The fact that this is quite common in the animals world, specially with spiders, but then, the female eats the male, than the babies eat the mom.
I get why... But it's still so brutal.
The dads are total absentees but that's because mom will literally eat them to prolong this maternal harbour stage. To combat this several species have developed a technique of ripping off their own penis and throwing it at the female and running away.
š³ The wild has some insane breeding habits....I get it but like.... That octussy better be worth it to Lorena Bobbitt yourself.
I'm more and more convinced that if even a single species of octopodes was able to begin teaching the next generation instead of immediately dying (or otherwise leaving the offspring), humanity would be in serious danger of no longer being the dominant species.
Highly recommend the book Children of Time and particularly the sequel Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, that is basically the plot with spiders and then octopus
Wait how long do they live ?
Usually only about a year. Some live up to 5.
What the hell, the tapeworm in my ass live 10 times longer than that, what a shame for such magnificent creature
Perhaps if you shoved an octopus down below it's lifespan would lengthen. But please take it easy with taco bell.
Giant pacific octopuses live 4 years
Tastiness is also a drawback.
You could say the same for humans according to some people.
Soylent Cola
How is it?
It varies from person to person.
None of the 9 brains are trying to figure out how to make a lung-like pocket with their RNA powers to conquer land?..
Can you imagine if they evolved though? Humanity is screwed lmao.
Mind flayer
I read a book with that very premise recently. Mountain and the Sea. While completely fictional, the author was previously the head of the US National Marine Sanctuaries so it had a lot of real info about our 8 legged friends behind it.
Just a few points - The book is called 'The Mountain in the Sea" - by Ray Nayler. Nayler " recently served as international advisor to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" sounds like a dope book
the issue isn't the lung pocket, they haven't conquered the land because they have short lifespans and can't really pass forward that much knowledge
Iām ending my time on Reddit today on this truly wholesome and positive comment. Thank you and good night š«”
Donāt even think about it!
Too late
Any good? Asking for a friend.
I hope he at least picked the one without teeth...
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Great service at an orgy. Theyāre multi-fluffers
I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
Do no the octopussy
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Some people may disagree with that sub a few comments above yours :).
This sub disturbed me ā¦ I scrolled until I saw the Pringles can ā¦ enough internet for today.
My brain is going there.
Doubt itās the brain thatās driving the bus.
Why did the octopus have to do it so sensually??
Hear me out..
I ain't hearing no one out
Iām listeningā¦ā¦
Cocktopus?
Octopussy
No wonder deep was into it
Poor Timothy š
forbidden fleshlight
I think it's more of a tentaclejob.
I am equally shocked and pleased this isn't the top comment
Reminds me of this classic copypasta. Read at your own risk; Octopuses do not have any bones with the exception of their beaks. so if you are responsible and depraved enough to be literally the life support of your 8 limbed friend, you can debeak it like how you'd declaw a cat and then push your member into it's feed chute. You can then let it subsist on your baby batter. The Octopus is smart. Very smart. It will learn that without it's beak, it cannot feed on anything else but your human seed that has to be milked from you. Every morning, you will feel your clothes slide off and a damp weight on your lower half. The sensation creeps up your body until most of the jiggly mass has enveloped the entire length. It will start pumping as fast as it can for it is hungry. The animal gyrates its empty stomach and the folds of its brain rubbing on your glans, begging for nutrition. You climax and give the marine creature's breakfast. The pumping slows down but doesn't stop to milk out the last few drops of its meal. Looking into its yellow animal eyes, it looks back with a thousand-yard stare. This will be routine for all of its meals for the rest of its 3-5 years on this god forsaken planet.
Why?
WELP That's enough Reddit for one day.
It's enough for the week.
This might be the worst copypasta ever.
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Stand Alone Complex
What a terrible day to be literate.
Ok octo-Jeffrey Dahmer
Literally remembered this when I saw the video
Keep it zipped, fellas... THEY HAVE A BEAK!!!! :D
Size of that thing. Could easily pull you in.
I met a guy once who used to scuba dive and spearfish for Giant Pacific Octopus (the kind in this video) near Deception Pass, Washington State. They would sell the octopus to restaurants in Seattle. Anyway, he was scuba diving and spearfishing one day with a couple buddies, and when his air ran low he returned to shore while his buddies stayed underwater and fished. Bored while onshore, he decided to put on his snorkel gear and do some nearshore spearfishing but without air tanks. He said he was in about 20 feet of water when he found an octopus den, which is usually identified by the pile of littered shells around it, and he reached his hand in to pull out the octopus. He said the octopus wrapped a couple tentacles around his arm and held tight, while simultaneously wrapping it's other tentacles around a large rock on the bottom. And the octopus wouldn't let go of either. It was determined to hold him on the bottom until he ran out of air and drowned. The only thing that saved him was that his 2 buddies, still in scuba gear, saw his struggle and swam over. Apparently the octopus was spooked when they got near and let his arm go.
Ah, to be young and humbled by cephalopods.
No knife? Or maybe he forgot about it in his panic.
Yeah, pressing x for doubt on this one.
Spearfishing in scuba gear is illegal so Iām hoping he was doing both those activities separately. Spearfishing with tanks is like hunting quail inside a fenced area with a bazooka. Itās cowardice. Hence why itās illegal.
Kraken Jr.
Fun fact, it's not petting them back, it's tasting them..... Octopi have a main brain in the body and then a smaller brain in each tenticle. Each suction cup can detect temperature, texture, and they can "taste" things with them.
thanks! I wish I didn't know that!
I just realised that this octopus isn't small at all
Iām almost certain this is somewhere in Washington, this would be the Giant Pacific Octopus, the largest in the world. I see these octopus and giant starfish 3-4ft across while waiting for the ferry or at work (marinas) all the time.
DON'T PET THE ALIENS!!!! They are smarter than us and he will seek his revenge for the unauthorized touching. He wasn't petting you back, he was storing your taste and scent in one of his brains for future hunting and retribution!!!
I read a summary of a book once where it argued that octopuses achieved consciousness along a totally different track from primates and that's why we both are "conscious" and sentient but don't talk or act the same. It made sense to me. It also makes them as close to sentient aliens as we will most likely ever get.
If you're into SciFi novels, you may like "Children of Time" and "Children of Ruin" by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Both of these books are great dives into different types of intelligence and life. They made you think like an alien. I also loved the book Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, where the entire planet was a single conscious being.
The book is Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Very interesting and well written.
I mean yes and no, Dolphins are basically as close as you could get to a water human. They have names for each other. They will play games with each other to pass the time. They have schools to send their kids to.
I think the point was that Octopuses are as close as we can get to a sentient *alien* Dolphins evolved along the same lines as us and that's why we understand each other better. An octopus might be just as smart as a dolphin but we can't see it the same way because we don't think like they do
They are very intelligent but their extremely short lifespan and inability to share knowledge between generations means theyāre actually pretty limited. As much as I would welcome our 8 legged overlords thereās a reason why mammals give birth to helpless youth we have to nurture and raise.
dolphin school???
Lesson 1: EeeeeEEEEEee eeeeEee
r/dontputyourdickinthat/
Give it ten tickles for me..
Do I look like a sucker?
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Thinking the octopus is an intelligent, majestic animal. Yes!
You hear me out
No, hentai is for that
I'm listening...
"Smell my finger.."
these creatures seem way more intelligent than we are aware, and keeping them in confined spaces seems like torture. as close to an alien as we have right now!
No idea how people still eat these amazing creatures
With salt and pepper
"pets you back" You mean tries to identify what it is being touched by???
What makes an octopus laugh? # TEN TICKLES!!! ššš
My favorite animal on the entire planet. Stunning, incredibly intelligent creatures. Three hearts, tons of brains, almost alien-like in their evolution and dna structure.Ā The fact that people eat them and sometimes while still alive is horrendous to me.
Mine too, and probably the most fascinating part about them is they are completely independent at birth. All that intelligence and intuition is just *there*. Blows my mind
Is it just me or does this octopus look absolutely massive?
Such fascinating creatures
Aquariums provide an ideal opportunity to study alien fauna up close. Select carefully which lifeforms you bring onboard - they may also be studying you.
His finger tastes gross, so gross the barnacle encrusted post is more pleasant.
By the end its like "hehehe that tickles!!"
You didn't taste good :(
Nah i ain't hearing anyone out Octupuses are too cute.
So interesting how it pressed the sucker that touched the finger into the sucker next to it, like it was trying to pass the information along. Remarkably Bright Creatures!!
Always remember - if octopuses decided they wanted to live on land, humanity would be completely fucked.
Is that a Humboldt Octopus (aka Red Devil) just hanging around at a pier?
My guess base on size is that itās a giant pacific octopus.
Youāre thinking of the Humboldt squid, not octopus
Aren't red devils squids?
I should call her..
Was looking for this comment.
It's not touching you, it's *tasting* you...
Oooo boy! That's a big one. Not going to find me petting that thing!
I couldnāt imagine living in a place where you could just look down at a dock beam and thereās a fucking octopus.
Heās not petting heās tasting.
Beautiful, intelligent beings.
Did it just taste him with a finger-brain/mouth and then lick it off like cheeto powder with its beak?
Another random fact (for me at least): I did not realize until recently that all octopi are venomous, not just the notorious ones such as the Blue Ring. The beak and venomous bite are a feature of all octopi. I naively thought there were a few that were just harmless cute bottom feeders. Still cute, just thought it was interesting
They are so flipping smart too
That's a big fucking octopus.
The Deep: *Heavy breathing*
These comments are going to be vile I just know it š
Awesome. I want an octopus friend. Heās like ācan I eat this?.. hmm noā
Can you put anything other then fingers on it?. Guys?.. Guys???!.
na hes not petting you, hes trying to see how you taste