You never know.
I think I’ve seen that one. It was shown in one of our lectures. If it’s the same one that I’ve seen, the octopus starts off against some sort of seaweed clump / rock and then, as a diver swims closer, loses its nerve and shoots off away from him. Is it the same one?
Another similar one that I saw was when I went on work experience to the Army. They showed a scene of some sort of desert scrubland environment and kept it like that for a few seconds. After that, a guy, dressed in camouflage stands up from in front of a bush right in the foreground and walks away. I didn’t realise how effective camouflage can be until I saw that film, I didn’t notice him at all until he made a move.
how long have you people been on the internet?
Octopii have tentacles, so to camoflage itself, it becomes hentai.
Wow. I honestly did not see that one coming.
Excellent work!. 
One of those ‘funniest videos’ shows had a clip filmed about 10 feet away from an above-ground pool.
A guy near the camera pulled himself up onto the pool’s thin metal wall. There must have been a structural flaw at that spot, because, with no warning, the wall came down in an instant, and all the water in the whole goddamn pool rushed out, in the direction of the camera.
The most incredible sight was the millisecond between the wall buckling and the water rushing out.
Three of 'em: all nature related. All sure to give you teh heebie-jeebies
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An octopus kills a shark. The sahrk was easily as large as teh octopus, but it gave no warning, or mercy. A rock just sprang alive and drowned the damn shark.
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The running octopi. Hilarious, yet you know they’re only a few steps from coming out of the waters and doing us like the did the shark.
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The running vampire bat. No fair! Echolocation, flight, and you can run! We can’t stop here, it’s bat country!
Since Christy Canyons been done (so to speak), I’ll nominate watching the Derbyshire sinking. It was basicly swallowed whole by one big wave.
You people have clearly never watched those videos of squirrels solving puzzles - the ones set to the tune of Mission Impossible.
DISASTER! Greatest Camera Scoop of All Time.
Tacoma, Washington. 11:00am, November 7, 1940.
[Len Berman] And guess what – NOBODY…got hurt! [/Len Berman]
I also once saw a Great Dane attack a squeak toy with such frenzy that there were only shreds left.
So I pwn you all.
I’m betting this is the octopus video mentioned. It’s amazing: www.ebaumsworld.com/octopus.html
Fluoroscope footage of the human head, when the subject is chewing, swallowing or speaking (with synched audio) always fascinate and utterly horrify me. And yet I’ve never been able to find any decent videos of it—I have to settle for the odd clip or two in a movie, or on PBS. 
Nitpick: the plural of “octopus” is octopods or octapoda, not octopii. Greek, not Latin. Still pretty funny, though.
Three squids swimming. From left to right there’s male A, male B, and female C.
Male A and female C are having the squid-equavalent of a good conversation over a bottle of wine. Both have matching colors rippling in waves over their bodies. That in itself was amazing, the colors changed just as often as human mouths when talking.
Then male B wedges himself between A and C. On the right half of his body, facing the female, he shows the same lively rippling colors. On the side facing Male A, he remains a cool, hostile white.
Hard to eat squid after that.
I alwats used to nag my mum for one of those assault courses for our garden when I was small. I was under the impression that you could buy them in kits or something. It’s only when she told me you had to make the damned things yourself that I let it drop.
hmm, that crashes mplayer for me. here’s a link with a still image from the video: http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/footage33_2.html.
The complexity of the camoflauge still astounds me.
Also, anyone who wants to be amazed should watch the National Geographic documentary “Myths and Logic Of Shaolin Kung-Fu”.
The scene has a *you had to watch the whole thing * element to it: A nature (I think it might have been Discovery Channel) documentary about the long cold-sometimes hot war between a pride of Lions vs. a pack of Hyenas.
Essentially the end of the program and the lead SHE hyena is clearly pushing the envelope and dissing the Lions, we have known these animals an hour now and are into it & emotionally invested, the scene:
The Male Alpha Lion, out of no where slices in and kills the SHE Hyena. it was really powerful. Really something to see.
The most amazing nature show I have ever seen , and one that never fails to bring tears to my eyes , was about a herd of elephants in a drought. They had very little to eat, and had to travel miles and miles to drink from a tiny, stagnent pool.
One of the females had recently given birth, and didn’t have enough milk to feed her calf. It was obviously dying. The herd started to make thier morning pilgrimage to the watering hole, and the calf was just too weak to make it, and laid down for the last time, but was not deaed yet. The mother stood over it, stroking it with her trunk while the herd each came and touched the dying calf, as if saying good-bye, then went on their way.
The mother watched her companions heading toward the life-giving water, taking a step toward the others, then back to her baby. The narrorator said something to the effect of it is a wild animal’s natural instinct for self preservation, and she knew her salvation was with the herd, getting water, not with the dying calf. By everything we know about animals, she should have went with the herd.
Instead, she stayed at her calf’s side until it had passed, continuosly stroking it and making low rumbling sounds, and only then did she go to join the others.
It made me look at elephants in a whole new light.
I remember that. The male lion basically says “OK, that’s enough of that” and lays the smack down. No more hyena.
It’s amazing when you realize this cold/hot war of which you speak has probably gone on uninterrupted for several million years.
