You know what they say: If you don’t like the octopusses in South East Asia, just wait 10 minutes…
It’s well known that at least three of the past seven US presidents have actually been mimic octopodes.
If anyone else is having trouble getting to the OP’s link, here’s the Google cache of the site:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:i6d7wGeruJIJ:www.thatvideosite.com/video/mimic_octopus+http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/mimic_octopus&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com
IANAIchtyologist, but at 1:17 in the linked-to video, it looks to me like the mimic octopus is imitating something similar to a stone fish. Not a stone fish per se, but a similar species. Since the octopus can’t actually swim with its sham fins, the “walking” is a way to propel itself that imitates the motion of a swimming fish.
That’s damn cool, but the intro to the video is kind of stupid in a “duh” sort of way.
“Unknown until it was spotted…”
Well…yeah, obviously it’s going to be unknown until it’s spotted.
If you ever find it, post the link. A brief review of youtube videos has not revealed this, and I’d love to see it.
This made me laugh myself into a coughing fit.
This thread made that comic make sense. And I also want to read that Orson Scott Card book.
IT’S A TRAP!
That be some freaky shit! Thanks for the link.
Bravo, well done. <clap clap clap>
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An interesting bit of trivia: In Return of the Jedi the role of Admiral Akbar was actually played by a mimic octopus.
But how do we know it’s really her? Maybe we’re all being taken in by a particularly clever octopus who has internet access.
They also played the Death Star, Darth Vader, and half of the Storm Troopers (but not Jar Jar Binks, because mimic octopuses have standards).
I personally think it was mimicking a frogfish.
Excellent find, that has to be it.
Good call, I think that has to be it.
Same here. I embrace all molluscs from squid to snail. (G0sp3l, I’m also partial to Chthulhu, which is why Sr. Olives says I will be the downfall of civilization.)
More of The Amazing Cephlopods, courtesy NPR’s Science Friday.
Is the little brown shape following the larger yellow frogfish another frogfish, or is it maybe a mimic octopus? It looks a lot like the image of the mimic octopus in the first video.
Curses! They’re *on *to me!
Here’s another example, from NPR’s Science Friday website. It shows an octopus not only changing color, but making its skin bumpy to match its surroundings. Cephalopods are color-blind, making it a real head-scratcher.
In the opening sequence, it’s impossible to find the octopus until the camera gets close enough to make it go white in a startle response, instantly. There’s more views of the chromatophores in a squid’s skin, suddenly increasing in size to 15 times their smallest size.
Sniff. I love cephalopods!