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Octopus steals video camera
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Octopus steals video camera
January 31, 2011 at 2:08 pm
I thought this was awesome, I love octopuses. Big Grin




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RE: Octopus steals video camera
January 31, 2011 at 5:19 pm (This post was last modified: January 31, 2011 at 5:24 pm by thesummerqueen.)
!! They're one of my favorite animals too!

When I am rich, or have married a sugar daddy, I will have one as a pet. I cannot afford a salt water tank right now. Sad
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Aren't they just beautiful?
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RE: Octopus steals video camera
January 31, 2011 at 5:55 pm
(January 31, 2011 at 5:19 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: !! They're one of my favorite animals too!

When I am rich, or have married a sugar daddy, I will have one as a pet. I cannot afford a salt water tank right now. Sad
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Aren't they just beautiful?

They are! Such amazing animals, and quite intelligent. I've always wanted one as a pet too, but apparently they have a very short life-span (1-2 years for small ones, maybe 5 years for Giant Octopus), and often die just from the stress of being transported. Poor things... My boyfriend works at a fish store, and every time they get a new octopus, it dies within days. Sad

I'll go scuba-diving one day... see these beauties in their natural environment. Smile

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RE: Octopus steals video camera
February 1, 2011 at 10:24 am
Found this off Geekologie.com

I feel like we could just keep a thread going devoted to these things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT97tS_XeaU
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February 1, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Love the way it changes coloration... so wonderful.
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February 1, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Awesome camouflage ability. And I love how they can squeeze through the smallest spaces. Maybe there was some yummy beer residue in there Tongue
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February 2, 2011 at 5:57 am
This is called a dumbo octopus (Grimpoteuthis):

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It gets such a name because of it's ear-like fins which resemble the ears of Walt Disney's flying elephant, the Dumbo.

Video: http://www.deepseamonsters.com/component...topus.html
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RE: Octopus steals video camera
February 2, 2011 at 8:39 am
Maybe I'm a bit weird, but I don't like octopi. Especially when they get their damn tentacles attached firmly to one of our fishing boats. Changing color is a cool trick, sure... but the only way I'm getting one of those things out of the boat is with a very long (long) oar used as a scoop. And please don't suggest eating them... I'd rather escargot.

And snail is not delicious. Or ticklish, as it happens.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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February 2, 2011 at 11:32 am
I won't eat anything with tentacles - squid or octopus. Bleh.

But I think the octopus is one of the most intriguing creatures out there.

Still disappointed, somewhat relatedly, that Cthulu didn't rise during the lunar eclipse...but whatever.
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RE: Octopus steals video camera
August 6, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Yes I will bump up an old thread.

This was just out-of-this-world.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10397
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