Posted on 09/30/2024 5:08:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
Octopi are incredibly smart. Living in coral reefs, where predators are abound, requires them to make split second life-or-death decisions. As a result, they’ve evolved to become quite brainy. Some species can even change color.
But this little octopus is a real prankster. Last week, at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in California, a female California two-spotted octopus flooded her aquarium home with at least 200 gallons of seawater.
Some scientists say octopuses are the perfect combination of smarts, strength, curiosity and manipulative ability, all of which helped this foot-long octopus swim to the top of her tank, disassemble a valve and release the 200 gallons of water.
The swell flooded nearby by offices and exhibits and ruined the aquarium’s recently installed ecologically designed floors. Researchers believe octopi learn from observing others, so maybe this little one was spying on zookeepers. Now I want a pet octopus!
Via National Geographic News.
flooded offices by manipulation? quite possibly learned from watching democrats on the evening news.
No pictures, just a photo of a stuffed octopus toy. What an article.
They’re the inspiration for the face huggers from “Alien”…
Octopuses are aliens- they are too smart to be animals.
I read an account some years ago about an aquarium that had a lab they kept new fish in to quarantine them, or put fish in to heal them if they were sick, etc. and they had fish disappearing from the tanks.
They suspected one of their employees was stealing the fish to sell them to collectors with salt water fish tanks looking for exotic fish, so they installed cameras.
In the middle of the night, they saw an octopus push aside the top of its tank, slither over to an adjoining tank, pull the top off, remove the fish, put the top back on, then it returned to its own tank and pulled the top of its own tank back into place!
I don’t know about this instance, but that indicates to me there is a level of intelligence octopi have that they aren’t given credit for!
No doubt designed by the same people who installed a sprinkler system in a storage facility stuffed full of product that under no circumstances should come into contact with water. See BioLabs in Conyers GA. idiocracy, we're living it.
“a female California two-spotted octopus”
A similar story: an aquarium needed to refurbish its octopus tank, so they reluctantly moved the octopus to their big reef tank where they kept the sharks, worriedthattheoctopus might get eaten. A few days later, one of the sharks developed a wound on its side. Then another shark was also wounded. Concerned that the sharks might have started attacking each other, they put a camera in the tank. Turns out, the octopus that had been cowering in a crevice of the exhibit was coming out at night, snareing a shark, taking a few bites, then releasing it.
Octopuses are probably the most intelligent animals on Earth...............
Octopus is a code symbol for something sinister.
I forgot what?!
By I recall somebody on the right was attacked, because he had a photo with little stuffed octopus.
Have to say it.
Draining the water out of the tank you live in is not smart. Its something democrats do all day.
It may have been an attempt at suicide. Living in a tank as opposed to freedom to roam about the ocean floor can be depressing..........
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Apparently, I need another cup of coffee...
The writer should have capitalized ‘two-spotted’ to make it more obvious................
Octopus is a code symbol for something sinister.
SPECTRE from the Bond films.
An acqaintenance of mine had a friend who had that happen to him. He set up camera to find out why fish were missing in tank next to the octopus tank.
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