Video: Octopus crawls out of water and walks on dry land

Yahoo! News ^ | Nov. 23, 2011 | Eric Pfeiffer

[Free ThinkerNY]

Check out this video of an octopus literally crawling out of the water and dragging itself across dry land in pursuit of a meal. A family with a camera was lucky enough to be on the scene and captured the whole thing on video:

[mamelukesabre]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjQr3lRACPI&feature=player_embedded

[mamelukesabre]

no reason to make folks go to yahoo for a youtube vid

[ClearCase_guy]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn:
"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming"

[radiohead]

Wow. Amazing.

[Vendome]

That wuz Awesome!

[2harddrive]

Cool - but a rather small octopus. You should have seen the one that escaped from captivity and was coming down the stairs toward me, as I was going up them, at an unnamed University in Florida that has an Indian tribe as its sports mascot! Some time later, they also had a Monitor lizard escape. Needless to say, guns were banned on campus! LOL.

[Fester Chugabrew]

most families only have one plunger at home. it moves. there are crackers, too.

[Moonman62]

I welcome our new octopus overlords.

[TASMANIANRED]

He’s gone walkabout.

[ransomnote]

Cute comment under the video on the yahoo page: "My leaders have instructed me to offer you this crab in the hopes that our two industrious people may some day work together. And now, I return to the ocean. Good day!"

[Trod Upon]

I’ve heard they can be a problem for the home aquarium enthusiast. Something about being sure the other tanks are more than a short crawl away from the octopus tank.

[SERKIT]

Was that an animated placenta?

[ransomnote]

Now that you mention it, I think it looks like a ‘face-hugger’ from the movie Alien.

[cephalopod]

Thank you, our time is coming. The first to accept us shall be the last to be eaten

[JoeProBono]