Carter is a good guess but it is all part of the act. His prior occupation was simply listed as submariner and no one noticed.
Is it smart enough to mimic stupid?
This is why I won’t eat octopus. That’s crazy smart.
I for one, welcome our Mimic Octopus Overlords…
Last week, I’m up at a friends woodland cabin, far into the woods where there is a deep and abiding darkness, when the sun goes down. He had just cut a birch, that was threatening to fall on something, and had it stacked beside his firepit. We went up the way, for a walk about, and returned after darkness had come. As we rounded that last turn in the path there was an eerie green glow from the ends of these logs. And it was bright. We were all awestruck. Turns out it’s a fungus, no doubt the reason the tree was not doing well. We were deep into a massive forest, far, far from any electric lights, wrapped in a profound darkness, awestruck by this brilliant glow.
Nature is indeed strange!
I saw the same, it was squid, not octopi doing the freaky show.
I’ve had an octopus clinging to a rock pointed at me, repeatedly, and I still couldn’t see it, they are amazingly good at camouflage.
Cuttlefish also are a treat, last time I saw some there was a group of three or four mating, well, one couple mating and two guys wanting some piece of the action, and the changes in colours and patterns they displayed were mesmerizing. Too bad it was close to 35 meters deep so I couldn’t hang around for long to see the show.