there was a news story recently about an aquarium that had a lightbulb that kept mysteriously blowing out after hours. The staff set up a camera, and discovered the culprit was an octopus that would squirt water at it.
There was another where an aquarium was losing some expensive rare fish each night after staff left. They suspected an inside theft occuring with black market sales of the fish. They set up a covert camera and were shocked to find an octopus from a few tanks over to be the culprit. He'd open the lid to his tank, crawl over the tops of the tanks, open the lid with the fish who kept turning up missing, plop down to eat his fill and then return to his tank.
lol!! It sounds like something a prisoner would do.
These stories are so funny and amazing!
...culprit was an octopus...
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Sounds like personality to me.
Some years ago, at the Indianapolis Zoo, keepers kept losing fish from some tanks and finally discovered that the octopus was slipping out of his tank at night — the lid was flush with the floor — walking to other tanks and helping himself to snacks of fish.