Ever found yourself wondering what an invisible cephalopod looks like?

[Will_Couper]

Originally Posted by poprock

That’s another strong possibility. Living in captivity drove the thing apeshit. It had impulse control and anger management issues. Plus those feckin’ sharks kept lookin’ at it funny.

Sounds like a case for Doctor Phil.





Will

[poprock]

Ever seen the video clips of algae octopi and coconut octopi ‘walking’ on two arms whilst waving the others above their heads? It’s a camouflage technique to pretend to be underwater tumbleweed.

There should be clips here.

[cinamon*spider*]

Originally Posted by LesMTS

Teleported. They can do that.

aye

[poprock]

I was looking for a clip of a zebra octopus too, but can’t find the damned thing anywhere. It doesn’t change skin colour so much and generally keeps black and white stripes all over it’s body. It flattens out and arranges it’s arms around itself in a specific fashion and then swims low along the seabed, looking for all the world like a flatfish covered in disruptive camouflage. Weird little bugger.

[Semprini]

Had seen that video before, but it's still a cracker.

[bodacious]

Originally Posted by faerie_child

he works in the aquaculture dept in stirling uni. they had a room full of tanks of fish and one tank with a squid in it. end of the day came, denny locked everything up and went home. arrived the next day to find all the fish gone and one very fat, very happy squid. it had broken out of its own tank, into every other tank in the room (there were loads) and eaten all the fish, then got back into its tank. but it had done it in such a way that it didn't look as if had left the tank, it looked like the fish had all been beamed up by aliens or something.

the imagery alone is brilliant!

[cookie]

Originally Posted by faerie_child

my dad, who will eat prettymuch anything, refuses to eat octopi or squid on the basis that they are possibly more intelligent than us.

Same

[russianfaerie]

sushi octopus is yummy i ate it cos squid and octopus freak the shit out of me and the prospect of studying them outside controlled situations freaks me out.

though saying that they are bloody great creatures!the small spaces they can squeeze in and out off is amazing to watch.

[petpiranha]

That can't be real. And if it is, HOW can it be real?

And more importantly, do the MI6 know about this?

[Obsidian]

It's still invisable to me cos there's something the matter with my bloody puter! :-(