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Nude
Nov 16, 2014

I have no idea what I'm doing.
I just wanted to share this with you guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS-USrwuUfA
You only have to watch like the fist 16 seconds. It's like watching magic happen.

You guys have any cool animal videos to share? I always enjoy watching them.

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Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgTuA0CcHP4

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
dang that was a cool vid, i give it 3 coolfish smilies
:coolfish::coolfish::coolfish:

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG6JebW63f4

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

I pissed and poo poo myself in pure joy watching that video, OP.
I called it "cum-up-u-lence" and just dicked all over myself.

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747
Octopussies are pretty cool, im gonna become one when i grow up.

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"
I show this video to my students when teaching them about science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5CZ74ybnbE

Cuttlefish loving rule.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
octopuses taste really good, i bet its because they're so smart

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpcf2nFakRg

spinderella
Jul 15, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Super cool. I only knew cuttlefish were that good at camouflage.

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar5WJrQik2o

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"
This one is of a cuttlefish seeing itself on a video screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DusaSVHmM

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

I just realized that the OP is a different person from forums user "Node." Huh.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Bogus Adventure posted:

This one is of a cuttlefish seeing itself on a video screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DusaSVHmM
"I should probably not traumatize fish this way."

A+ :coolfish:

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

Nude
Nov 16, 2014

I have no idea what I'm doing.

Oh wow drat. I laughed pretty hard at this. That poor crab, what a way to go.

Bogus Adventure posted:

This one is of a cuttlefish seeing itself on a video screen:

This is great, those big eyes lmao. I'm just imaging the cuttlefish thinking "I'm so high right now".

Bogus Adventure posted:

I show this video to my students when teaching them about science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5CZ74ybnbE

Cuttlefish loving rule.
I didn't realize cuttlefish could use their color to hypnotize as well, really amazing. It also proves they have direct control over it, which is far out.

Hector Beerlioz posted:

octopuses taste really good, i bet its because they're so smart

Weirdly enough, and maybe Bogus Adventure could help me out on this, Octopuses don't have brains like most other species. They have complex nervous system, and each of their tentacles can operate on their own without having to communicate to a main "brain". Making it one of the most alien species on our planet, just because while smart it doesn't process information the same way a typical brain does. Also according to the video that particular octopus is color-blind.

Here is an octopus going through a hole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=949eYdEz3Es

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"
I've only got my Google Ph.D. in cephalopods, but scientists say they are so smart because they do have a central brain as well as lots of neurons in their arms.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/

They are just really cool. They can reflexively change color to blend into their environment, change their skin shape, they have incredibly complex eyes that can see polarized light, and their arms can move both independently and in unison. They can apparently recognize different people, squeeze through the smallest of holes, walk on land, and mimic other animals.

Mr. Meagles
Apr 30, 2004

Out here, everything hurts


Bogus Adventure posted:

I've only got my Google Ph.D. in cephalopods, but scientists say they are so smart because they do have a central brain as well as lots of neurons in their arms.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/

They are just really cool. They can reflexively change color to blend into their environment, change their skin shape, they have incredibly complex eyes that can see polarized light, and their arms can move both independently and in unison. They can apparently recognize different people, squeeze through the smallest of holes, walk on land, and mimic other animals.

yeah but all that fancy evolution is just to defend themselves from crabs

crabs are pretty bitchmade compared to me (a human)

like all species of birds are superior organisms in my book because at least they can escape if i try to step on em

Maldoror
Oct 5, 2003

by R. Guyovich
Nap Ghost

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"

Tom Gorman posted:

yeah but all that fancy evolution is just to defend themselves from crabs

crabs are pretty bitchmade compared to me (a human)

like all species of birds are superior organisms in my book because at least they can escape if i try to step on em

They hunt crabs. That stuff is to defend them from seals, sharks, and other animals big enough to eat them.

myDad
Jan 20, 2010

ce n'est pas ma mère
College Slice
Octopuses & cuttlefish are super badass creatures :five: for octo-chat

Mr. Meagles
Apr 30, 2004

Out here, everything hurts


Bogus Adventure posted:

They hunt crabs. That stuff is to defend them from seals, sharks, and other animals big enough to eat them.

yeah maybe tiny bitchmade crabs. not swole rear end Kali Muscle crabs from the primeval depths with powerful crab hands.

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

Bogus Adventure posted:

They hunt crabs. That stuff is to defend them from seals, sharks, and other animals big enough to eat them.

some octopuses are less than an inch long. I bet those guys are scared of crabs

check out this octopus: http://www.deepseanews.com/2015/05/six-reasons-the-blanket-octopus-is-my-new-favorite-cephalopod/



Aesop Poprock fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Jan 17, 2018

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ngKVTKtbhI

Aesop Poprock fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Jan 17, 2018

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"

Aesop Poprock posted:

some octopuses are less than an inch long. I bet those guys are scared of crabs

check out this octopus: http://www.deepseanews.com/2015/05/six-reasons-the-blanket-octopus-is-my-new-favorite-cephalopod/





Hells yeah

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"

Tom Gorman posted:

yeah maybe tiny bitchmade crabs. not swole rear end Kali Muscle crabs from the primeval depths with powerful crab hands.

Yeah, I'm sure they'd be as afraid of those crabs. I mean, it's not like octopuses have been known to eat sharks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q36_8s5z6S8

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
octopus is extremely good eats

cannot recommend enough

:yum:

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
I've been snorkelling a bunch of times with giant cuttlefish and they are incredibly loving cool.

Most were used to divers and they'd just hover around you like guild navigators, all cool and aloof.


EDIT: To avoid confusion, "giant" cuttlefish aren't like giant squid. They're only about half a metre long.

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jan 17, 2018

Cacator
Aug 6, 2005

You're quite good at turning me on.

I recently read the book Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life which is about octopus (and cuttlefish, and squid, kinda) intelligence and how they're the best example of alien intelligence we'll find since mammals and cephalopods diverged in the evolutionary tree hundreds of millions of years ago. And I felt guilty about eating them because they clearly have an intellect and curiosity and personality. Then I went to Spain and Portugal and had the fattest, most tender and delicious grilled octopus I've ever eaten. God drat it was good.

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Chinatown posted:

octopus is extremely good eats

cannot recommend enough

:yum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUTNZ9JLj1E

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Nude
Nov 16, 2014

I have no idea what I'm doing.
Apparently he had do more than one take for that scene so that's not the only octopus that died that way. Found a video of a cuttlefish imitating a crab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_p3Yreztig
Here is a shot of a pretty rad kill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgDE2DOICuc&t=32s

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