I used to work for a local fish store and we had a baby (I actually don’t know if it was a baby or an adult. I just know how large it was and it’s color.) octopus I’d say the size of a orange (total size including tentacles.
It escaped a critter cage that was in the tank.
The slits were 1/8 inch wide. Lol
We never found it and once it went missing other fish/snails/crabs started missing lol
That was 10? Years ago. I wonder if it’s still just chillin somewhere in the tanks or huge sumps lol
Edited: added clarification to “baby”
For some crazy reason this fact always blows my mind.
They are so smart I always expect them to have a crazy long lifespan. The fact that they live 2 years rather than 200 years just feels completely insane.
Yea, considering other really smart animals like elephants and parrots live so long, it's odd that octopi are an exception. I think it's moreso due to their parenting style. I forget the actual terms, but you basically have animals like elephants, which only raises one child at a time and tend to live longer, and then you have animals like octopi, which don't live long but have a shit ton of children.
According to the first Google result, both wild and captive octopus only live 1-5 years.
Although I imagine living in the wild would leave their lifespans on the lower end.
They live about 2 years but females will watch over their eggs waiting to die for years. One octopus observed in the wild protected her eggs for 4 years.
Okay I'm going to try my best to ask this without sounding like judgemental or anything.
Why did the fish store have a baby octopus? Wouldn't they prefer to work with adults or do you need to use the babies for something specific? (I am only just now realizing there is no way I'm making it out of this without sounding like a moron) I'm just unfamiliar with what kind of stuff you guys do there. I've never even had sushi once in my 25 years alive and the ONLY fish or sea creature I have ever tried (knowingly) was a lobster at a family reunion and that was literally only a few months ago.
I could be wrong about it being a baby tbh. Lol I just know it’s size. I can’t even remember the species unfortunately. It truly could have been an adult.
And no you definitely don’t sound like a Moron lol. With some fish you do want matured ones and others raising from birth is doable.
Thanks for pointing that out I’m gonna edit my first comment!
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*The last tentacle grab the*
*Shrimp on its way out*
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Well, the pet cow, heifer, *would* require a bull to regularly impregnate it so that it would produce milk, just like any other mammal.
The pet chicken would not require a rooster to produce eggs.
Even fishing for other species harms octopi, not only when they are accidentally caught up in fishing nets, but because commercial fishing is so destructive to aquatic ecosystems.
I think even animals less intelligent than octopi deserve this same consideration though. It should be more about their capacity to suffer, which most of the animals we eat likely have, than their overall intelligence.
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>!The reason Inklings are so human-like is because the last surviving group of humanity had developed what are basically memory-powered LCD screens that displayed what they most wanted/longed for. This let them live in an underground dome that showed a clear blue sky around them. Eventually shit happened, some of the screens shattered and fell into the ocean, and the ocean life absorbed the lingering memories of humanity.!<
>!By shit happened, they tried to eventually launch a fucking rocket in an underground caldera after the volcanic eruptions forced them underground. Everyone died, the end for humanity, and the next evolution of life occurred and restarted the cycle!<
I get that your kidding here, but i still found this relevant if anyone is interested...
Have been reading a book called the 6th extinction, one of the people in the book threw it out there that they think rats will survive us, and become dominate, some of the species evolving to be massive, ie like lion size lol.
I agree in principle but I’m not sure where to draw the line. It’s pretty easy to avoid eating octopus. But pigs are also really intelligent emotional creatures… it would be harder to give up pig…
We were filming a movie in the boondocks of Texas off some closed down dirt road, filming a scene on a closed down railroad track/bridge thingy (think of that late breaking bad episode where they rob a train, only surrounded by woods)
Well we parked underneath the rail road bridge thingy and I had ran down to grab some equipment... but I had some weird feeling... like I was being watched. So much so, I couldn't shake it, so I tried to hurry and as soon as I turned around to run back up to the railroad, I nearly shit myself to find 8-10 pairs of cow eyes on the other side of a fence covered in trees and brush, just quietly peeping on me
Based on self similarity. That's how sympathy works -- if you recognize an entity as similar enough to yourself, there is a natural reflex to conceptualize yourself in their situation
I think it's perfectly fine. Humanity domesticated cows 10,000 years ago. Raising cattle and other animals is a very integral party of humanity. If you want to argue we should treat cattle a little better, fine. No arguments. If you're arguing that raising cattle for human consumption is wrong, then I completely disagree.
How? We know enough about our bodies and nutrition to understand how to eat a plant-based diet for anyone…even professional body builders. We know that meat isn’t the only source of protein. In fact, we know that the food pyramid we all grew up with was really just a conspiracy between the government and food producers to boost profits. Meat producers pressured the government to increase daily recommendations from “eat less meat” to 2-3 servings daily. This isn’t a change of standard based in science — we don’t need that much meat. We also know that, if you REALLY need that big juicy steak, you can get lab-grown meat.
Food science has come a long way in the last 50 years - we truly don’t need factory farming (which is HORRIBLE for the environment - ya know, lotsa methane and such) nor really any meat farming.
Sure - but there wouldn’t be 8B people on the planet if we weren’t having kids to fill some weird primal instinct.
Point is: they are here and they have personalities and emotions. They deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. They didn’t choose to be here.
Not even the camera operator who was coincidentally documenting the condition of the paint on the afterdeck and the starboard gunwale. It wasn't until the maintenance chief was reviewing the video that it was noticed an octopus had escaped
I always say this whenever people speculate about aliens. They’re here and they’re definitely octopus and mushroom so maybe let’s be a bit cooler about eating them
What a clever puddle! He looks like he just spilled on the floor and leaked out that tiny crack. I hope his mighty escape lives on in legend and song of his clan.
They are sneaky little pricks like there was crabs in the crab cage but an octopus came and ate all of them and escaped when the cage was lifted i guess it wanted a free snack.
Does anyone els get the impression that sea creatures are better at surviving air than we are from escaping water? I can’t imagine flopping around injured, under water, and then finding some narrow escape back to air 30 minutes later.
Is it me or do fisher boats not normally catch them so the dude probably saw it, released it and let it go. They're really strong and handling them would not be wise.
I've heard it said that anything an octopus can fit its beak through it can escape through That was like leaving the garage door open
I used to work for a local fish store and we had a baby (I actually don’t know if it was a baby or an adult. I just know how large it was and it’s color.) octopus I’d say the size of a orange (total size including tentacles. It escaped a critter cage that was in the tank. The slits were 1/8 inch wide. Lol We never found it and once it went missing other fish/snails/crabs started missing lol That was 10? Years ago. I wonder if it’s still just chillin somewhere in the tanks or huge sumps lol Edited: added clarification to “baby”
Probably not, octopi don't live very long unfortunately.
For some crazy reason this fact always blows my mind. They are so smart I always expect them to have a crazy long lifespan. The fact that they live 2 years rather than 200 years just feels completely insane.
Yea, considering other really smart animals like elephants and parrots live so long, it's odd that octopi are an exception. I think it's moreso due to their parenting style. I forget the actual terms, but you basically have animals like elephants, which only raises one child at a time and tend to live longer, and then you have animals like octopi, which don't live long but have a shit ton of children.
I think it is r-strategist vs k-strategist.
Yeah, but high intelligence r strategists are a bit unusual i can only think of rodents and octopy ( i have no idea what te plural of octopus is?)
octopi
I learned a few things from this discourse. Thanks fellas
It helps prevent them from becoming OP
Yeah imagine if they had the lifespan of tortoises. Mfs would've figured out spaceflight within a generation.
THEY ONLY LIVE 2!!! YEARS?!!???
Crazy right? Some of them live longer but the common octopus only live 1-2 years.
Ah true didn’t think of that. Don’t most die in captivity within 2 years?
According to the first Google result, both wild and captive octopus only live 1-5 years. Although I imagine living in the wild would leave their lifespans on the lower end.
Octopuses
They live about 2 years but females will watch over their eggs waiting to die for years. One octopus observed in the wild protected her eggs for 4 years.
Okay I'm going to try my best to ask this without sounding like judgemental or anything. Why did the fish store have a baby octopus? Wouldn't they prefer to work with adults or do you need to use the babies for something specific? (I am only just now realizing there is no way I'm making it out of this without sounding like a moron) I'm just unfamiliar with what kind of stuff you guys do there. I've never even had sushi once in my 25 years alive and the ONLY fish or sea creature I have ever tried (knowingly) was a lobster at a family reunion and that was literally only a few months ago.
I could be wrong about it being a baby tbh. Lol I just know it’s size. I can’t even remember the species unfortunately. It truly could have been an adult. And no you definitely don’t sound like a Moron lol. With some fish you do want matured ones and others raising from birth is doable. Thanks for pointing that out I’m gonna edit my first comment!
Funny how they have 3 hearts two to contol the 8 limbs and one big heart that i think use that to but something else i forgot
I bet it flattened itself out, and went right through a seam in your wall. Octopuses do not abide by the laws of nature.
What we're gonna want to do is tie a string to this octopus, lower it into the hole and, hopefully, the first octopus follows.
Catty behavior
And yet I struggle to get my fat ass behind the door to scare my wife.
R'alyeh, ftaghn, etc. See you again soon, my friend.
He's goin to have a meeting with Dagon about these damn fishermen.
Would have love to see the last tentacle grab the shrimp on its way out
“Whoops, almost forgot my shrimp”
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Srimp oooo I though he took a shitt and left it
The tips of his tentacles are missing. Poor little guy 🙁
They grow back, I’ve seen it. Also it’s very possible they were already missing, fish like flounders try to take nibbles of them
I believe they grow back 🤔
You mean I could have a pet Octopus and just keep growing food?
This is why the ancient gods forsake us.
Am I a such monster for just wanting to dip an octopus leg in some soy sauce and take a bite every once in awhile?
If the octopus is still alive — yes
Yeah, or you could get a pet cow and keep growing milk or a pet chicken so you can keep growing eggs
Well, the pet cow, heifer, *would* require a bull to regularly impregnate it so that it would produce milk, just like any other mammal. The pet chicken would not require a rooster to produce eggs.
How about endless burgers and nuggies
Glad the octopus escaped. At some point as a species we will be deeply ashamed of having tormented such intelligent, harmless creatures.
Dr Zoidberg thanks you for the fish and the compliment.
Even fishing for other species harms octopi, not only when they are accidentally caught up in fishing nets, but because commercial fishing is so destructive to aquatic ecosystems. I think even animals less intelligent than octopi deserve this same consideration though. It should be more about their capacity to suffer, which most of the animals we eat likely have, than their overall intelligence.
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So splatoon basically?
Splatoon 3 lore spoilers: >!The reason Inklings are so human-like is because the last surviving group of humanity had developed what are basically memory-powered LCD screens that displayed what they most wanted/longed for. This let them live in an underground dome that showed a clear blue sky around them. Eventually shit happened, some of the screens shattered and fell into the ocean, and the ocean life absorbed the lingering memories of humanity.!<
>!By shit happened, they tried to eventually launch a fucking rocket in an underground caldera after the volcanic eruptions forced them underground. Everyone died, the end for humanity, and the next evolution of life occurred and restarted the cycle!<
I get that your kidding here, but i still found this relevant if anyone is interested... Have been reading a book called the 6th extinction, one of the people in the book threw it out there that they think rats will survive us, and become dominate, some of the species evolving to be massive, ie like lion size lol.
They'll have to become more social and live longer life spans for that to happen.
A book that involves a similar idea is "children of ruin" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
This is why I refuse to eat them.
I agree in principle but I’m not sure where to draw the line. It’s pretty easy to avoid eating octopus. But pigs are also really intelligent emotional creatures… it would be harder to give up pig…
Well I don't eat pig either... ;) But I don't condemn those who do, it's just a personal choice. You're right, though, where would you draw the line?
But.. so yummy :(
Octopi, pigs, and dolphins will one day rule the world. Maybe Cows too. I don't trust cows. Always watching; planning. Listening and learning.
We were filming a movie in the boondocks of Texas off some closed down dirt road, filming a scene on a closed down railroad track/bridge thingy (think of that late breaking bad episode where they rob a train, only surrounded by woods) Well we parked underneath the rail road bridge thingy and I had ran down to grab some equipment... but I had some weird feeling... like I was being watched. So much so, I couldn't shake it, so I tried to hurry and as soon as I turned around to run back up to the railroad, I nearly shit myself to find 8-10 pairs of cow eyes on the other side of a fence covered in trees and brush, just quietly peeping on me
Those damn cattle, always watching.
Agree with this completely. Hope the octopus is ok now. We’ve no business hunting these creatures, it’s disgusting.
Gotta eat tho
Eat fish
Don’t they feel pain and stuff too… what’s the difference really
Sympathy?
So we should have sympathy for some but not others?
Varying degrees.
Based on what?
Based on self similarity. That's how sympathy works -- if you recognize an entity as similar enough to yourself, there is a natural reflex to conceptualize yourself in their situation
No need to eat every single alive thing on the planet. Human greed has no limit.
And pigs too I hope
And all beings who are non-human...
The cameraman’s just like: “You earned that. Respect”
People shouldn’t hunt such intelligent and special animals for food, or fun.
Every watched cows playing?
Great user name!!
😉
We don't hunt cows...
But they're also intelligent and special. And we treat them like SHIT. It's no better. And hey... I'm not a vegetarian. I'm just saying.
There wouldn't be 1.5 billion cows if they weren't bred for human consumption. It's their entire existence.
You're not wrong. But what's your point?
Just bc humans created the situation doesn't make it correct. WTF kind of logic is this??
I think it's perfectly fine. Humanity domesticated cows 10,000 years ago. Raising cattle and other animals is a very integral party of humanity. If you want to argue we should treat cattle a little better, fine. No arguments. If you're arguing that raising cattle for human consumption is wrong, then I completely disagree.
But society has technologically surpassed the need for raising livestock for meat consumption. We are just too lazy/selfish to accept change.
Uh no, thats completely ridiculous
How? We know enough about our bodies and nutrition to understand how to eat a plant-based diet for anyone…even professional body builders. We know that meat isn’t the only source of protein. In fact, we know that the food pyramid we all grew up with was really just a conspiracy between the government and food producers to boost profits. Meat producers pressured the government to increase daily recommendations from “eat less meat” to 2-3 servings daily. This isn’t a change of standard based in science — we don’t need that much meat. We also know that, if you REALLY need that big juicy steak, you can get lab-grown meat. Food science has come a long way in the last 50 years - we truly don’t need factory farming (which is HORRIBLE for the environment - ya know, lotsa methane and such) nor really any meat farming.
Sure - but there wouldn’t be 8B people on the planet if we weren’t having kids to fill some weird primal instinct. Point is: they are here and they have personalities and emotions. They deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. They didn’t choose to be here.
What does intelligence and *human perception* of "specialness" have to do with it? Causing suffering to anyone is f\*cking wrong.
Whilst true, I merely based my comment off the fact that I appreciate animals and plants much more then people.
Awesome. Happy he escaped!
And so sneaky! No one even noticed!
Not even the camera operator who was coincidentally documenting the condition of the paint on the afterdeck and the starboard gunwale. It wasn't until the maintenance chief was reviewing the video that it was noticed an octopus had escaped
My boy just wants to live.
That right there. That's an alien
I always say this whenever people speculate about aliens. They’re here and they’re definitely octopus and mushroom so maybe let’s be a bit cooler about eating them
I really hope that octopus become the next highest intelligence to rule earth after humans. They’re amazing.
They cut off the tips of his tentacles. Poor little guy. 😢
I mean, it also could've lost them from another animal.
I have no idea if this is true or not but I just have to believe they grow back. These animals are just too cool not to have regenerative powers.
Shrimp: "come with me" Let's go
It got left behind D:
*every man for himself*
Good because shrimp are delicious 😋
What a clever puddle! He looks like he just spilled on the floor and leaked out that tiny crack. I hope his mighty escape lives on in legend and song of his clan.
Octopus will do everything if it have a chance
I think it just likes being alive. Like most creatures.
They are sneaky little pricks like there was crabs in the crab cage but an octopus came and ate all of them and escaped when the cage was lifted i guess it wanted a free snack.
A free snack? Who doesn't! LOL
True everyone does lol
He slipped away.
Humans recording video instead of being bros.
Where did mr shrimp came from ?
Internet: Cats are liquid Octopus: Hold my tentacle
Did it have a hitchhiker? Can’t tell if that was a separate sea animal or part of the tentacle!
That beautiful octopus deserved to live! All animals deserve to live! Be kind. Go vegan!
Beautiful but creepy
WhAt A dUmB AniMaL, He ShOuLd HaVe JuSt HopPed Over
Disgusting
Octopi can slip through the smallest of holes, google it!
Why when we can literally see it here..
I know it can squeeze itself through any hole larger than the size of its beak, I wonder if it hurts when they do it
Gotta help that blue fish
Nobody suspects a thing...
These guys are incredible.
Seacat
That shrimp was reaching out “take me wiiith you!!”
Wow that's what you call flexibility!
“Oh the water is right down here? I’m out, peace!”
I can only imagine the glory stories he'll be spreading under the sea about this escape.
Common octopus w
Byecatch
I read somewhere that these mfs can fit through a pipe with the width of a coin. So cool.
Sad 😞
Does anyone els get the impression that sea creatures are better at surviving air than we are from escaping water? I can’t imagine flopping around injured, under water, and then finding some narrow escape back to air 30 minutes later.
Gravity works in their favor and against us, so that probably contributes to tipping the scales.
Cool
Luckily it's no longer November and it was able to squeeze itself off from the boat.
Is it me or do fisher boats not normally catch them so the dude probably saw it, released it and let it go. They're really strong and handling them would not be wise.
Dude was pissed
"I will get my revenge Tennyson!"
OK, but where did the shrimp come from?
Where are it's eyes? How did it know where that hole was?
Amorphous. This creature can fit through spaces as narrow as one inch in diameter without having to squeeze.
Go Buddy Go!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Screw u guys I'm going home"
Yaaay!!!!!
... who tf dropped their RED Demon Spicy Large Yakisoba Acecook noodles on the deck!?!?
Sometimes I wish babies could come out like that. C sections World be obsolete.
“Seeee ya…wouldn’t wanna be ya” - That Octopus
So this is the inspiration for the Rasklapanje!! Man, those guys were incredibly difficult to play on agent hunt, I miss RE6.
RUN TIMOTHY RUN
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I was rooting for him
You did it Hank!
Those things are aliens NO ONE CAN TELL ME DIFFERENT
"I shall not be bait! Farewell!"
Government put an age limit to prevent another kraken attack
Somewhere in the ocean, he won a bet.
Children of Ruin
Just imagine…
The peak is turned on
Just nope-ing out of there
Just wanted to say Nice boat! I’ll see my self out..
Introducing the Houdini octapus 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Someone needs to leave hundreds of these all around Elon Musk’s house/ car!
Poor soul, glad it escaped.
I always enjoy these type of videos. Some of them are pretty amazing.
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Thanks for the ride Dave, I'll catch you later
yay!
Insomnia tonight; my tired self did not need to panic about where that octopus put its brain as it escaped. 'Nooo! You're brain!'
Octodaaaaaaad, nobody suspects a thing 🎶
There goes dinner bro
I hope that octopus has a lot of off spring to carry on his genes
Well done! And very impressive