I had a biology teacher that told us this story about an octopus at an aquarium in Australia. The staff were concerned because their population of crustaceans kept disappearing. No bodies or anything. So they checked the video feed to find out what’s up.
Across from the the crustacean tank was a small octopus tank. This little fucker squeezed out of a tiny hole at the top of his tank, walk across the hall, and get into the crustacean tank. He would then hunt and eat. After he was done, he crawled back out and get back in his tank
Here’s the kicker: security guards patrolled the area. The staff realized that the octopus had memorized the security’s routine. It would escape and be back between the guards’ round.
My friend who worked at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska had a similar story. Rare fish were disappearing, they suspected theft, and so set up a camera. An octopus was unlocking the top of its tank, walking across the suspended walkway, unlocking the other tank, eating his fill, re-locking the other tank, then re-locking its own tank.
I can’t remember what zoo this happened at, but there was another octopus somewhere who was unscrewing a water valve in the room where its tank was located and routinely flooding the place. The staffers had no idea what it was until they filmed the octopus caught in the act.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!! But, sir, it has already released itself!
My dad worked in a lab and one of the rooms had a tank with an octopus in it. If they didn’t go play with the octopus he got bored and would climb out of his tank and steal the paperwork off the desks, and drag stuff into his tank to let the scientists know he was upset with them.
Octopus: “What, like it’s hard?”
I didn’t even have to suspend disbelief with Finding Dory for the octopus scenes, because they were all 100% plausible.
those scenes are just Factual Footage of What Octopuses Do
You know, I want to be scared of octopuses but I can’t help but think that they’re so dam cool. Sorry terror, my sense of wonder wins out.
I would be scared if like, wasps or hippos had this level of cunning but I trust octopuses
They won’t harm us they just wanna live in their Ocean Home
Knowing all this has made me decide not to eat octopus anymore tho for the same reason I wouldn’t eat a person or apes…I do not feel right eating something this intelligent…
also, if you’re worried about octopodes taking over, remember that their natural lifespan is limited to 3 – 5 years for the longest-lived species, because once they hit sexual maturity their digestive glands shut down and they die (the males soon after mating, the females after brooding & hatching)
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