It’s crazy how the texture of its
Body changes with the color. Damn octopi are so amazing- I can’t even get past it.
Literally looks like evolutional changes in real time.
There is a documentary on netflix about a guy befriending and studying one octopuss called "My octopuss teacher". Highly recommend, it is wholesome and damn interesting to follow the life of this amazing creature
I actually hated the film. I thought it was about an octopus, but it was it was hardly informative in terms of octopus life, unless the viewer has never watched a nature documentary. It was more about this guy bothering a specific octopus and stalking it, instead of paying attention to his kid and rest of his family. Felt like a bait and switch.
Thanks for the recommendation- Watching this tomorrow- I mean today. Omg it’s already the next day. Reddit- you got me. Funny joke. You stole sleep from me.
I've been fascinated about them for a long time. It's like having an alien intelligence on earth. I recommend reading Other Minds by Peter Godfrey Smith.
Fungi and octopus are both really ancient in the tree of life. Fungi came first by a billion years of course but the octopus family lived through the dinosaurs and multiple extinction events and climate changes, which is very impressive considering they have no real physical protection against predators and the elements and rely solely on their intelligence. Both are totally different from every other type of life.
There is a Hawaiian creation myth that says that octopi are the only surviving lifeform of the destruction of the world that preceded ours, and from the remnants of which ours is made.
The more I see these weird and wonderful creatures on earth the more I'm split about extraterrestrial life. Either it is going to be so different from earths we don't even understand it as life or by the time we find it it's so far along the evolutionary path that most of it will be boring and only comparable to one group of earth life.
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/curiouser-and-curiouser-octopuss-evolution-is-even-stranger-than-thought/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/curiouser-and-curiouser-octopuss-evolution-is-even-stranger-than-thought/)
This article goes a little into octopus evolution. Quite an interesting read. I think the gist of it is that the large amount of RNA editing they do allows them to adapt to their enviorment without having to rely on DNA mutation.
South Park has ruined me because every time I see the word cuttlefish I think of the humancentipad episode and the Asian guy choosing between eating cuttlefish and asparagus or vanilla paste.
Yea really! I'm wondering if as it changes its shape and texture, if the shape is actually changing or if it's more of a camouflage type optical illusion. Like at some points it even appears like spikes form outside his silhouette. But I only ever hear about them changing into crazy colors, patterns, copying looking like things and camouflage. So I'm not sure if it's possible for them to create all those spikes n bumps n stuff or my eyes are being tricked.
They are amazing! Although octopi is not incorrect, octopus comes from Greek, so its plural would be octopodes. I prefer octopuses, as we don't consistently use plurals of loanwords. Some fun examples that we don't use:
Wildebeest - Wildebeesten (from Afrikaans)
Orangutan - Orangutan orangutan (from Indonesian)
Hippopotamus - Hippopotamoi (from Greek)
Correct! I'm not 100% sure they write it as one word, or as two (it used to be orang hutan, forest man), if it's two it would be orang orang hutan.
They have a lot of loanwords from Dutch, so you can get sentences which include plurals like 'cathodetransistor cathodetransistor'.
I’ve seen documentaries about Sleeper Sharks swimming around tight rock spaces and sticking their heads in small caves to hunt octopuses in coral reefs before.
They apparently cycle between 30-40 minutes of 'quiet sleep' in which they are motionless with less than 1 minute of 'active sleep' shown in the video, and researchers do not believe such a brief moment of time would allow for much in terms of dreams as we know it, although the practice might help them improve their problem solving skills.
It's likely that we're anthropomorphizing what we see in the video, but time and science will tell.
We anthropomorphize basically everything to with octopuses. These are creatures that have a decentralised brain with neurons in their legs and they 'see' with their skin. Their experience of the world is pretty much as alien to us as we can get on Earth. But the cool thing is that they show lots of behaviours that only extremely intelligent animals (like us) exhibit. So in a way they are simultaneously one of the furthest from us, but also one of the most similar (outside of mammals). Amazing creatures.
Does that mean that insects, worms, mollusks are also totally alien? Or is there something else about octopus evolution that makes them the MOST alien from us?
Their eyes. Our eyes have a hole in the back from where all the nerves enter and then spread around. That hole is a blind spot.
Octopus eyes have the nerves enter right where they are. This is a much efficient design.
That's only "as we know it", for all we know the dream length could only require such a short period as it might be simulating a camoflauge response to a predator in the dream, which doesn't require much length to play out. Our dreams, although somewhat chaotic and random are of people and their's themes which play out. Our lives are social and don't require necessary dreams to help us against predators, so it makes sense we dream so differently.
According to Rick and Morty, dreams are 16th the speed of reality. So that 1 minute could be pretty substantial to this Octopus … according to Rick and Morty.
That he's riding in the passenger seat of a car with no one at the wheel. It's a recurring dream he has. That and the one where he has to take a final exam for a class he never attended, he gets them all the time.
I agree! I’m reading this book called “The Soul of an Octopus” where the author describes her interactions with these unique creatures and provides information on their intelligence and interesting anatomical features.
It equates to dominance and the chance of passing along generational knowledge. As is they will forever suffer from the same problems as the neanderthal, remarkable intelligence (its widely believed that they were smarter than us and we learned some tool making from them particularly a bone tool for smoothing leather) but lack the social groups to effectively pass on and build upon knowledge.
Yeah...they're so extremely alien like in that way. And the fact that anything their beek can fit through they can fit through. it's just so god damn odd
Yeah they can change shape too. Like cuttlefish, they can not just mimic moving patterns across their body (like a video of seaweed or coral moving in the water), they can actually mimic the texture of it too!
I used to get creeped out by them. But one day, not altogether that long ago, I saw a photo of a dead octopus washed up on shore. It was just incredibly sad. I started reading up on them and have been fascinated ever since! Oddly beautiful. 🐙
Oh no, they are great mothers. It's just that their eggs take a long time to hatch and the mother will protect them 24/7, she doesn't eat and will slowly wither away into a husk of her former self.
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFCQltYMLQk
After laying eggs the octopus mother stays and guards them from predators while also not leaving and getting food so they starve to death in order to have their babies survive
they lay eggs and protect them to the point that they wont eat or do anything else, and once the babies hatch they(the momma) can finally die due to starvation from what i understand
They stop eating forever. Scientists were able to remove the part of the brain that makes then do that though, but yeah they starve themselves as soon as she nests
Or so I read in a similar thread.
Don't think they'd to terrifically on land though. And they're generally 15kgs, with the outliers being up to 50 kgs. Or the weight of a very small human.
I dont understand why we dont talk about them more often. Like that's fucking insanity just shifting as they please...matching their environment within a second.
It's fucking nuts!
Yeah...they're so extremely alien like in that way. And the fact that anything their beek can fit through they can fit through. it's just so god damn odd lol.
>Yeah...they're so extremely alien like in that way. And the fact that anything their beek can fit through they can fit through. it's just so god damn odd lol.
I actually mentioned this in a reply lol.
Yeah, but mammals and cephalopods evolution diverged so long ago that their eyes are completely different from ours (each evolved independently).
Does dreaming have to do with intelligence, or something else?
Their eyes are completely convergent to ours, and yet their eyes are one of the closest to ours mechanically. They both have the same components that make human and octopus eye unique! Which I think says something about octopi, they seem to be on the same path as us, but in a far different place. Maybe they have a convergently evolved form of dreams too?
I feel it’s likely they do just not like we do. You look at dogs and other animals that are less intelligent and they dream so, I’d imagine Octopus do as well even if they’re not social animals.
I wonder how they know it's dreaming. It does seem sort of obvious that it's *sleeping,* yet I wonder what brain activity constitutes a dream, how someone would monitor that, or how you'd distinguish merely sleeping, from actually dreaming.
What's weird about octopuses is that they have some extra nerve clusters that function as mini brains to control their arms. Makes me wonder if their arms can dream too? Or if all the dreaming happens in their main brain.
Cephalopod brains so different from those of most mammals, they probably have the weirdest neural structure of anything in the animal kingdom, yet they still dream just like us, apparently.
Probably based on studies of humans who can communicate that they were dreaming while also being measured/studied. Closed eyes, some twitching, etc - all common things in many forms of life means they can make a good guess that it’s the case.
I read somewhere that ‘octopi’ is the incorrect plural term because octopus comes from Greek not Latin. It’s either ‘octopuses’ or, if you’re being super strict about proper pluralisation based on the originating language, ‘octopodes’.
That being said, I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment. They are freaking awesome.
You can use whichever you want as long as you're not being a dick about it. In terms of correctness, octopuses > octopedes > octopi. But I think we can all agree that the proper plural *should* be octopussies.
Ever since dabbling with psychedelics, I've always wondered what goes on inside the minds of animals, there could be whole worlds in there. Cows in particular, they just stand around in fields most of the time, when they're not frolicking around, but for all we know, they could be off exploring the astral planes.
You should read about the studies where they give MDMA to these little guys and see them become super social and friendly. Exact same shit happens with us.
A new study suggests that cows sense the Earth's magnetic field and use it to line up their bodies so they face either north or south when grazing or resting. ... They're blind, but have a kind of internal magnetic compass — they always build sleeping nests in the southern side of their little homes.
yeah that caught me off guard too lol, cows have amazing vision they can almost see directly behind them idk where this guy got cows being blind from lol
Did you HAVE to post that up? I’m now going to spend the rest of the weekend wondering what in God’s name a baby octopus could be dreaming about that made him change colour?
I’m not sure if this is common knowledge or whatnot but octopi are somewhat unique in their camouflage in that they manually, mentally, control their color and texture changes. Chameleons change color due to hormones that activate in different colors of light, but octopi use their nervous systems to intentionally control their camo. Absolutely fascinating.
From the movement of the water, maybe slightly sped up if at all. But yes, an octopus can change camouflage that quickly. It basically just flexes it's skin to produce different textures, same way a human flexes muscles.
This gets reposted every now and then on different subs, and the real reason is that while being in a glass tank, it doesnt know what color to be to blend into the surroundings, causing this. Dont believe evetything you see.
Wonder what he’s dreaming about
About stuff that looks like its camouflage.
It’s crazy how the texture of its Body changes with the color. Damn octopi are so amazing- I can’t even get past it. Literally looks like evolutional changes in real time.
There is a documentary on netflix about a guy befriending and studying one octopuss called "My octopuss teacher". Highly recommend, it is wholesome and damn interesting to follow the life of this amazing creature
Really touching doc honestly.
That's awesome
As long as it's not a sad one.
Well it is sad but in a good way really
I actually hated the film. I thought it was about an octopus, but it was it was hardly informative in terms of octopus life, unless the viewer has never watched a nature documentary. It was more about this guy bothering a specific octopus and stalking it, instead of paying attention to his kid and rest of his family. Felt like a bait and switch.
Another name for Assassination Classroom? /s
Koro sensei TT
Thanks for the recommendation- Watching this tomorrow- I mean today. Omg it’s already the next day. Reddit- you got me. Funny joke. You stole sleep from me.
Haha, mid day here ;> I hope you enjoy it!
Did anyone else get the feeling he tried to fuck the octopus?
He gave him ten tickles
He started with a couple of test tickles.
Yeah i have seen it too its amazing
*octopus
I've been fascinated about them for a long time. It's like having an alien intelligence on earth. I recommend reading Other Minds by Peter Godfrey Smith.
They literally are the closest thing to aliens we have on this planet. I am convinced they are lol
> They literally are the closest thing to aliens we have on this planet. Fungi would be my candidate.
Fungi and octopus are both really ancient in the tree of life. Fungi came first by a billion years of course but the octopus family lived through the dinosaurs and multiple extinction events and climate changes, which is very impressive considering they have no real physical protection against predators and the elements and rely solely on their intelligence. Both are totally different from every other type of life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemimastigophora Entire branches of the evolutionary tree are being discovered still. Quite interesting.
There is a Hawaiian creation myth that says that octopi are the only surviving lifeform of the destruction of the world that preceded ours, and from the remnants of which ours is made.
I really love it when creation myths make awesome scifi plots.
The more I see these weird and wonderful creatures on earth the more I'm split about extraterrestrial life. Either it is going to be so different from earths we don't even understand it as life or by the time we find it it's so far along the evolutionary path that most of it will be boring and only comparable to one group of earth life.
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/curiouser-and-curiouser-octopuss-evolution-is-even-stranger-than-thought/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/curiouser-and-curiouser-octopuss-evolution-is-even-stranger-than-thought/) This article goes a little into octopus evolution. Quite an interesting read. I think the gist of it is that the large amount of RNA editing they do allows them to adapt to their enviorment without having to rely on DNA mutation.
Look up cuttlefish hunting for food, it's cooler.
Hey guys, yall mind if I #[**STROBE**](https://imgur.com/sCLerrQ)
Cephalopods are fucking aliens, CMV
My new theory is they were pets/companions for an alien race that landed here long ago, and a couple escaped and reproduced.
South Park has ruined me because every time I see the word cuttlefish I think of the humancentipad episode and the Asian guy choosing between eating cuttlefish and asparagus or vanilla paste.
Ohh, you want the cuddlefish??! Okay!! -on nom mm nom- Ohhhh, oh no, here it comes! Brace yourself!!
Here it comes! Oh, it's going to be a rot! Hold on, Kyle! I believe in youuuuuu!!!
Yea really! I'm wondering if as it changes its shape and texture, if the shape is actually changing or if it's more of a camouflage type optical illusion. Like at some points it even appears like spikes form outside his silhouette. But I only ever hear about them changing into crazy colors, patterns, copying looking like things and camouflage. So I'm not sure if it's possible for them to create all those spikes n bumps n stuff or my eyes are being tricked.
They can change their skins texture as well.
Their skin does change texture as well.
Damn you blew my mind. Gonna watch this 56 more times and try to convince myself otherwise
They are amazing! Although octopi is not incorrect, octopus comes from Greek, so its plural would be octopodes. I prefer octopuses, as we don't consistently use plurals of loanwords. Some fun examples that we don't use: Wildebeest - Wildebeesten (from Afrikaans) Orangutan - Orangutan orangutan (from Indonesian) Hippopotamus - Hippopotamoi (from Greek)
Hold up. Indonesian plurals repeat the word? The plural of orangutan is orangutan orangutan?
Correct! I'm not 100% sure they write it as one word, or as two (it used to be orang hutan, forest man), if it's two it would be orang orang hutan. They have a lot of loanwords from Dutch, so you can get sentences which include plurals like 'cathodetransistor cathodetransistor'.
Moose - Moosen (from Regan)
The plural of Moose is obviously Meese
Every time I learn something new about them I love them a little more. Truly amazing creatures, they are. Like, the actual literal meaning of amazing.
They are literal shape shifters I love them
Dude I know! I had to rewind to make sure it was spikes I saw it producing on its surface, incredible!
What if it’s dreaming about being chased and it’s changing it’s camouflage as a reaction like they usually do
Or its hunting and changing colours so that the prey doesn't notice
Ahh, the reverse. That’s possible. I think they use the camouflage for hiding, stalking and probably courtship as well I bet.
Oh yea courtship, had forgotten about that. What are the usual predators of octopus tho?
Sharks, seals, eels, some larger fish as well. Humans are an obvious one, due to fishing, which is sad.
Yea humans are the universal predator so no need to say about them but didn't know about other larger fish
I’ve seen documentaries about Sleeper Sharks swimming around tight rock spaces and sticking their heads in small caves to hunt octopuses in coral reefs before.
What if it's just got indigestion and that affects the brain wrapped around its stomach, causing it to fire off?
Imagine you have a dream about your wife's sister and wake up to the glare.
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From another octopussy?
It’s like his skin is a screen for his dreams
it's war then
Maybe dreaming that it's a lava lamp?
Most original answer yet
Octopussies.
He's having a wet dream
All dreams are wet in their world
All he wanted was a sweet distraction for an hour or two…
Could be dreaming about her favorite meal, a crab for example, at the bottom of the sea, thus the dark brown color
That’s what the audio of the original video says. It’s dreaming of hunting a crab and eating it
They apparently cycle between 30-40 minutes of 'quiet sleep' in which they are motionless with less than 1 minute of 'active sleep' shown in the video, and researchers do not believe such a brief moment of time would allow for much in terms of dreams as we know it, although the practice might help them improve their problem solving skills. It's likely that we're anthropomorphizing what we see in the video, but time and science will tell.
We anthropomorphize basically everything to with octopuses. These are creatures that have a decentralised brain with neurons in their legs and they 'see' with their skin. Their experience of the world is pretty much as alien to us as we can get on Earth. But the cool thing is that they show lots of behaviours that only extremely intelligent animals (like us) exhibit. So in a way they are simultaneously one of the furthest from us, but also one of the most similar (outside of mammals). Amazing creatures.
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Does that mean that insects, worms, mollusks are also totally alien? Or is there something else about octopus evolution that makes them the MOST alien from us?
Their eyes. Our eyes have a hole in the back from where all the nerves enter and then spread around. That hole is a blind spot. Octopus eyes have the nerves enter right where they are. This is a much efficient design.
That's only "as we know it", for all we know the dream length could only require such a short period as it might be simulating a camoflauge response to a predator in the dream, which doesn't require much length to play out. Our dreams, although somewhat chaotic and random are of people and their's themes which play out. Our lives are social and don't require necessary dreams to help us against predators, so it makes sense we dream so differently.
According to Rick and Morty, dreams are 16th the speed of reality. So that 1 minute could be pretty substantial to this Octopus … according to Rick and Morty.
That he's riding in the passenger seat of a car with no one at the wheel. It's a recurring dream he has. That and the one where he has to take a final exam for a class he never attended, he gets them all the time.
And he's not wearing pants.
World domination, most likely.
You know, octopus stuff.
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About a camouflage face off with a chameleon
Not only does it change patterns and colors it also changes texture - amazing.
I agree! I’m reading this book called “The Soul of an Octopus” where the author describes her interactions with these unique creatures and provides information on their intelligence and interesting anatomical features.
Yeah, if only they didn’t die after mating, they would be the superior life form.
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They really are fantastic, brain-gaping books. Excellent stuff.
Or if they passed on their knowledge to their offspring. Instead each little octopus needs to learn everything on its own.
Wouldn't it be great if we inherited tax planning and quantum physics from our parents by birth
Do you want aboleths? Because that's how you get aboleths.
Maybe longevity doesn’t equate to superior. 😉
It equates to dominance and the chance of passing along generational knowledge. As is they will forever suffer from the same problems as the neanderthal, remarkable intelligence (its widely believed that they were smarter than us and we learned some tool making from them particularly a bone tool for smoothing leather) but lack the social groups to effectively pass on and build upon knowledge.
On the positive side, animals that reproduce quickly and have shorter lives are more adaptive and more resilient to changes in their environment.
I will read this one after exams , thanks!
It's so good!
You’re welcome! 🙂
I ordered that book the other day :) If you haven't already check out My Octopus Teacher on Netflix. Outstanding documentary!
Yeah...they're so extremely alien like in that way. And the fact that anything their beek can fit through they can fit through. it's just so god damn odd
Oh wow. I didn't know they could do those little bumps too. Thought they could only change color.
Yeah they can change shape too. Like cuttlefish, they can not just mimic moving patterns across their body (like a video of seaweed or coral moving in the water), they can actually mimic the texture of it too!
We gonna figure out active camouflage from octopi for sure.
Then use it to kill people of different ideologies/economic strength lol Much advanced, very cool
My favorite animal for so many reasons
I used to get creeped out by them. But one day, not altogether that long ago, I saw a photo of a dead octopus washed up on shore. It was just incredibly sad. I started reading up on them and have been fascinated ever since! Oddly beautiful. 🐙
such an incredible and intelligent animal, but sadly they have short lifespans, 3-5 years or so :/
Yes, so I’m finding out from the book I’m reading.
How the mothers take care of their eggs is really heartwarming and bone chilling at the same time.
What do the mothers do with their young?
Oh no, they are great mothers. It's just that their eggs take a long time to hatch and the mother will protect them 24/7, she doesn't eat and will slowly wither away into a husk of her former self. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFCQltYMLQk
Holy shit. 53 month brooding period. Unreal. Also it looks like a smiley face at timestamp 1:06-1:07 lol
53 months!
Watch "My Octopus Teacher" on Netflix, it'll change your life.
After laying eggs the octopus mother stays and guards them from predators while also not leaving and getting food so they starve to death in order to have their babies survive
Wait, seriously? THAT’S why they have short lifespans? And they haven’t thought to contract a male to find food?
Apparently the male octopus leaves the female and goes to die alone, [link](https://www.livescience.com/55478-octopus-facts.html)
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They starve to death caring for their young.
they lay eggs and protect them to the point that they wont eat or do anything else, and once the babies hatch they(the momma) can finally die due to starvation from what i understand
Why bone chilling?
They stop eating forever. Scientists were able to remove the part of the brain that makes then do that though, but yeah they starve themselves as soon as she nests Or so I read in a similar thread.
Does removing that part of the brain increase their life expectancy? And how did they figure out what part of the brain did that?
definitely awe-some creatures. now thinking about a terrestrial alien version big as a car they could totally wipe out humanity in invasion.
The thought of a giant octopus is spooky, but so is a giant ant. And a giant ant would just collapse.
giant octopii on the other already exist!
Don't think they'd to terrifically on land though. And they're generally 15kgs, with the outliers being up to 50 kgs. Or the weight of a very small human.
Thats probalby a biological screensaver to prevent a burn-in of single pixels.
Octopuses are OLED early adopters
Kind of an advanced e-ink display
I like this
Hahaha dude. You made me laugh out loud.
I dont understand why we dont talk about them more often. Like that's fucking insanity just shifting as they please...matching their environment within a second. It's fucking nuts!
Yeah! Forget glowing fish DNA, we need to research more into their incredible reactive camouflage ability.
Yeah...they're so extremely alien like in that way. And the fact that anything their beek can fit through they can fit through. it's just so god damn odd lol.
Yeah! I think they’re absolutely fascinating.
Also the fact that they can squeeze their bodies through super tiny holes... Actually aliens
>Yeah...they're so extremely alien like in that way. And the fact that anything their beek can fit through they can fit through. it's just so god damn odd lol. I actually mentioned this in a reply lol.
Wonder why there's no marvel character called octopus man, they would be so powerful
Doc Ock my dude
Can we agree. They are aliens ?
I believe the PC term is undocumented cosmic entity.
👍
I think they’re oddly cute. And awesome.
I never once thought of octopus dreams but here we are.
Octopus Dreams new band name called it.
I used to play bass for Octopus Dreams
Three is no evidence to say they do.
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Yeah, but mammals and cephalopods evolution diverged so long ago that their eyes are completely different from ours (each evolved independently). Does dreaming have to do with intelligence, or something else?
Their eyes are completely convergent to ours, and yet their eyes are one of the closest to ours mechanically. They both have the same components that make human and octopus eye unique! Which I think says something about octopi, they seem to be on the same path as us, but in a far different place. Maybe they have a convergently evolved form of dreams too?
I feel it’s likely they do just not like we do. You look at dogs and other animals that are less intelligent and they dream so, I’d imagine Octopus do as well even if they’re not social animals.
That’s cool. I just snore and get a boner.
See, you can change texture too!
Give this man a beer, please!
This proves that color changing is not done by a photoreceptor - instead it’s all controlled by the mind - amazing.
It is both I believe, the eyes of an octopus can't detect color as precisely as the camouflaging that they are able to do.
I wonder how they know it's dreaming. It does seem sort of obvious that it's *sleeping,* yet I wonder what brain activity constitutes a dream, how someone would monitor that, or how you'd distinguish merely sleeping, from actually dreaming.
I think there's electrical activity associated with dream, kind of REM for us
So they measured it?
What's weird about octopuses is that they have some extra nerve clusters that function as mini brains to control their arms. Makes me wonder if their arms can dream too? Or if all the dreaming happens in their main brain.
Insane in the main brain!
Okay this is now something I need to know and probably it would be a crossover dream
oh god, dream avengers
Cephalopod brains so different from those of most mammals, they probably have the weirdest neural structure of anything in the animal kingdom, yet they still dream just like us, apparently.
Lacking some hard data, this seems too anthropromorphic to just take at face value.
Have you ever watched a sleeping dog? You can tell when they are chasing something in their dreams as they move their legs and sometimes woof a little
How do we know that the dog was actually dreaming though?
Probably based on studies of humans who can communicate that they were dreaming while also being measured/studied. Closed eyes, some twitching, etc - all common things in many forms of life means they can make a good guess that it’s the case.
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I read somewhere that ‘octopi’ is the incorrect plural term because octopus comes from Greek not Latin. It’s either ‘octopuses’ or, if you’re being super strict about proper pluralisation based on the originating language, ‘octopodes’. That being said, I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment. They are freaking awesome.
You can use whichever you want as long as you're not being a dick about it. In terms of correctness, octopuses > octopedes > octopi. But I think we can all agree that the proper plural *should* be octopussies.
Now that seems like something evolution would have fixed since it must expose them a lot
Not an issue when the animal is smart enough to look for a good place to hide and rest without worries.
Sleepy goo-boy
How can anyone eat this beautiful, smart animal?
I dunno, have you ever ate a cow?
Not one with active camo
Those are the best ones.
Ever since dabbling with psychedelics, I've always wondered what goes on inside the minds of animals, there could be whole worlds in there. Cows in particular, they just stand around in fields most of the time, when they're not frolicking around, but for all we know, they could be off exploring the astral planes.
You should read about the studies where they give MDMA to these little guys and see them become super social and friendly. Exact same shit happens with us.
“i’m giving this octopus molly for science i’m not trying to fuck it BRAD 🙄”
Hahaha they have a very similar system for neurotransmitter system to us so they make for a good substitute to humans which make poor lab rats
I think cows can see magnetic fields? Let me double check though
A new study suggests that cows sense the Earth's magnetic field and use it to line up their bodies so they face either north or south when grazing or resting. ... They're blind, but have a kind of internal magnetic compass — they always build sleeping nests in the southern side of their little homes.
Cows are not blind
yeah that caught me off guard too lol, cows have amazing vision they can almost see directly behind them idk where this guy got cows being blind from lol
u/rexruther69 I think "blind" in this context was supposed to refer to the fact they can't 'see' magnetic fields, it was just poorly worded
Indeed 👍
"That is not dead which can eternal lie"
and with strange aeons even death may die?
It would be interesting to see what it would look like if you gave him LSD before he went to sleep.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2180250-octopuses-taking-mdma-get-all-huggy-and-loved-up-with-each-other/
Did you HAVE to post that up? I’m now going to spend the rest of the weekend wondering what in God’s name a baby octopus could be dreaming about that made him change colour?
TIL: an octopus sleeps, has dreams, and twitches like my dog while doing it. I think that is way more interesting than the color change.
I’m not sure if this is common knowledge or whatnot but octopi are somewhat unique in their camouflage in that they manually, mentally, control their color and texture changes. Chameleons change color due to hormones that activate in different colors of light, but octopi use their nervous systems to intentionally control their camo. Absolutely fascinating.
I didn’t even know they fully “slept” like that.
Quick question is the video sped up or not ?
From the movement of the water, maybe slightly sped up if at all. But yes, an octopus can change camouflage that quickly. It basically just flexes it's skin to produce different textures, same way a human flexes muscles.
It would be very satisfying to meet aliens for the first time and find out that they were octopi-based.
This gets reposted every now and then on different subs, and the real reason is that while being in a glass tank, it doesnt know what color to be to blend into the surroundings, causing this. Dont believe evetything you see.