I just saw a video on the mimic octopus which was unknown to science until the 1990’s for good reason. It has instant morphing capability and can take on the form of many other dangerous sea creatures in a way few have ever seen before. It transforms itself using a thought process I don’t even want to contemplate. I knew the bastards are really smart but I didn’t know some of them have superpowers. The last example of it running like I bird across the sea floor is freaky.
That is so cool! I jest love cephlopods! People think it’s weird that my favorite animals are cuttlefish and octopuses.
Also, it does a *hilarious *Carol Channing.
That is nuts! Wow!
I am so glad you’re back, Eve.
Guess who’s been tagged to host the 2012 Academy Awards?
Damn nature u scary!
My favorite is when it shows a couple of bizarre shapes and the narrator basically says, “Yeah, we don’t know what the hell this is supposed to be.”
Do Cary Grant!
I liked the researcher’s comment that some of the shapes are hard to identify. “It could be a piano or a fridge…”
Maybe that’s what it was going for and just needs practice! I imagine the octopi at their meetings comparing notes. “I can do an upright piano, but not a grand. The pedals are the hardest part.”
Sure, the mimic octopus gets all the attention, with all its awesome impressions. Meanwhile, the prop octopus (scientific name Carrottoppus Gallagherensi) gets no respect from the animal comedy world. You’d think being able to squash eight watermelons at once would be worth something, but noooo.
[hushed narration] This is the distinctive call of the Nautiloidis Absurdis, which is also identified by its unmistakable arrow-through-the-mantle adaptation. [/hushed narration]
The “running across the sea bed” iteration was freaking me out, man. Octopussies are pretty damned cool - are they smarter than squid, or are the squid the big brains in the ocean?
In Soviet Russia, nature mimics you!
Aw, I was going to link that.
Pulp Fiction just took a weird left turn in my head:
“Check out the big brain on Brad!”
“That’s not Brad, that’s a mimic octopus!”
“Shit, where’s that muhfuker Brad? Marvin, why didn’t you tell us there was a muhfuckin mimic octopus in here?” blam blam blam
I can’t see that link, so don’t know if it’s the same one. But there was a youtube where, among other scenes, a mimic was romancing a lady, while simultaneously fighting off a rival. He presented comforting friendly colors and shape on one side of his body, while the other was presenting fighting stance and angry colors to the rival. As the three moved through the water, the sides had to switch and even rotate several times, and he never once got the wrong set-up. It was breathtaking.
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Octupuses, man. They freak me out.
I’m not even joking, they creep me out. Eff-ing Chtulhu spawn.