Eating live animals is fucked, horrible tradition honestly.
China in a nutshell
I'm pretty sure that's neither the size nor the method appropriate for eating an octopus alive
Not like you ever should eat any creature alive
Maybe just don't try to eat animals alive. I dunno? Kill them first?
https://youtu.be/XDdTuVUtdnI
It's not actually so bad. She's just being an idiot trying to pull it straight off without holding her eyelid in place.
I'm not going to say she deserved it, but she was asking for it.
When tentacle porn in real life goes bad?
No she totally deserved it.
I'm wondering if the puncture in her cheek was from the suction cups or from the octopus actually biting her.
I had no idea that octopuses could lodge themselves THIS strongly to shit.
They are strong fucking things and smart as hell.
They don't use suction cups like you might think, they're actually just covered in hooks. Doesn't take much effort for them to just latch on to you once they get into your skin.
Incredible, so they are more puncturing cups than vacuum cups, was not aware that they had hooks on them.
Octopi are almost as smart as dogs iirc.
There was a story about a bunch of octopuses were inside of an aquarium with a jar of peanuts standing nearby with them learning how to open the lid of the aquarium and unscrew the jar of peanuts and then put everything back and close the lid of the aquarium after coming back.
Deserved it.
That's not entirely true. Some squids have hooks on or next to their suckers, but octopi generally just have suckers. It's just muscle:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/211377/e75f14df-939d-4a9f-9663-e471035e3e38/image.png
Squid seem worse in the ouchy department.
A piece of sperm whale skin with Giant Squid sucker scars
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/A_piece_of_sperm_whale_skin_with_Giant_Squid_sucker_scars.JPG/548px-A_piece_of_sperm_whale_skin_with_Giant_Squid_sucker_scars.JPG
Smarter.
It probably bit her. They have beaks and they're sharp as fuck
Several aquaria I've been to have said along the lines that if an octopus grabs a feeding pole, that it's better to give them it because you're more likely to rip the octopus apart than to get them to let go of it. They've also noticeably had the pole pulled toward the octopi.
They're one of the few animals that can use tools, so they're way, way smarter than dogs.
They also have distributed intelligence with neurons stretching across their entire body. Imagine if you were playing a piano and were about to make a mistake and one of your hands corrected your main brain from making it, or if one of your hands caught an falling fork from the plate without your main brain consciously thinking about it.
First thought:
https://youtu.be/aUTNZ9JLj1E
There was that octopus that predicted world cup results too. They're smart dudes. They should run for president tbh.
There was also a story about an octopus that figured out how to take the lid off its tank, climb into another nearby tank and devour all the fish inside, and then climb back inside its own tank, put the cover back on, and pretended nothing had happened. In order to prevent it from happening again, the staff glued shit onto the underside of the lid that the octopus didn't like the feel of.
Tool usage is generally a lot more prevalent than was previously expected, so this is not as good of a metric as might be assumed. For example, dogs, including wild populations, have been known to move pieces of furniture in order to access things they want and multiple carnivorians, most notably raccoons, are capable of manipulating locks and handles. Other animals that are tool users that are generally not considered "smart", including wrasses (which both have tool usage and have passed the mirror test, despite being fish), mongooses, crocodiles, alligators, badgers and most birds. On the flipside, tool creation is far more limited, mostly to just primates, elephants, finches (cactus spine spears), orb-weaver spiders (bolas), corvids (various tools with shapings that are distinct based on culture) and many other birds (with the most obvious example being nests). Kites and falcons of Australia have also learned how to use fire, and will not only actively fan the flames to make them burn stronger, but will even seek out wood to ignite even more of the terrain and have even been wtinessed picking up burning straw to purposely start new fires elsewhere. This is particularly notable because kites and falcons are unrelated and one species of kite that does this is present throughout a large amount of the world, suggesting that they are learning to use fire from other kites that are native to only the area and are likely spreading the knowledge to other countries.
Likewise, both dogs and octopi fail the mirror test, but fire ants have passed the mirror test as individuals, suggesting ants are smarter than was previously anticipated, though don't seem to feel pain when on fire. As fire ant lineages within Myrmicinae have been known to collaborate to turn themselves into tools, such as bridges or rafts, as well as farm livestock, hijack other colonies by successfully tricking them to raise their own colony members, harvest and grow fungi, entrance sabotage, go to war and commit slavery, this may mean they are comparable to or exceed the intelligence of octopi and jumping spiders, rather than just using what is assumed to be a hive mind mentality.
However, the underlying issue is that intelligence comparison is simply difficult to establish when accounting for the sheer differences in nervous systems between arthropods, cephalopods and vertebrates, which all had a common ancestor over 550 million years ago.
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