[quote]Check out this video of an octopus literally crawling out of the water and dragging itself across dry land in pursuit of a meal. A family with a camera was lucky enough to be on the scene and captured the whole thing on video:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjQr3lRACPI&feature=player_embedded[/media]
f you're curious to learn more about the sea creature's possible motivation, there has been some great research on the understanding of octopus intelligence recently, including this surprisingly moving article in Orion magazine, chronicling a researchers bond with a giant Pacific octopus named Athena.
As it turns out, walking on land in the octopus kingdom is not as unique as you might think:
Some would let themselves be captured, only to use the net as a trampoline. They'd leap off the mesh and onto the floor—and then run for it. Yes, run. "You'd chase them under the tank, back and forth, like you were chasing a cat," [Middlebury College researcher Alexa] Warburton said. "It's so weird!"
Octopuses in captivity actually escape their watery enclosures with alarming frequency. While on the move, they have been discovered on carpets, along bookshelves, in a teapot, and inside the aquarium tanks of other fish—upon whom they have usually been dining.
However, it's quite unusual to capture video of a walking octopus in action. Part of the reason that studies on the creatures have been so limited, aside from their brief three-year life spans, is that they are notoriously shy, usually avoiding contact not only with humans, but with any other creatures, including fellow octopi.[/quote]
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/video-octopus-crawls-water-walks-dry-land-150510810.html[/url]
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This has been one of my worst fears for a long time, I can already picture the days that I can't walk in my local park without being afraid of tentacles dragging me into the treetops.
Octopi can change colour, create smokescreens with ink (Or is that the squid?), swim at high speeds, crawl stealthily across the sea floor and fit into tiny spaces. And now they can go onto land.
The more I read about them, the more intelligent, cunning and interesting they seem.
Hm. What's so funny?
[IMG]http://sharetv.org/images/guide/326380.jpg[/IMG]
Just you wait
Finally, I've waited long enough for these little bastards to start ascending.
[QUOTE=monkey11;33406569][IMG]http://sharetv.org/images/guide/326380.jpg[/IMG]
Just you wait[/QUOTE]
But it's okay, because pikachu will stop them.
That octopus was like "F**k this shit, I don't have to take this crap from nature - natural environments my ass..." and took a walk.
[img]http://archive.no-ip.org/images/mu/thumb/0126/27/1283742514107s.jpg[/img]
I've a phobia of the damn things.
I can't wait to have my own pet octopus, that I can actually walk.
This reminds me of that one old show on the discovery channel that showed the future with giant octopi walking on land and swinging on trees and stuff.
found it, It was called, The future is wild.
[QUOTE=Last or First;33406380]SQUIBBONS
Doesn't anyone else remember that?
Squibbons?[/QUOTE]
Or the Swampus.
This is both interesting and disgusting-looking at the same time.
It's all fun and games until they reach Japan
I dont know why, but that looks creepy as hell.
I've seen enough Hentai to know where this is going.
[QUOTE=JETFIGHTER5;33406705]I've seen enough Hentai to know where this is going.[/QUOTE]
The future looks grand.
Sometimes when I'm alone at night in my bed I like to cover myself in vaseline and pretend i'm a slug.
This is the octopus equivilent.
octopus can breath air?
Anyone else reminded of the game Octodad?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVoSYDWX2Ig[/media]
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