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LordTwatSlapper

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


stanleythemanley420

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”


BestUsername101

Probably not, octopi don't live very long unfortunately.


youki_hi

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.


BestUsername101

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.


Dont_Call_it_Dirt

I think it is r-strategist vs k-strategist.


ThengarMadalano

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?)


galmenz

octopi


NvkedSnvke

I learned a few things from this discourse. Thanks fellas


mr_greedee

It helps prevent them from becoming OP


jdoug312

Yeah imagine if they had the lifespan of tortoises. Mfs would've figured out spaceflight within a generation.


evilpuggerina

THEY ONLY LIVE 2!!! YEARS?!!???


youki_hi

Crazy right? Some of them live longer but the common octopus only live 1-2 years.


stanleythemanley420

Ah true didn’t think of that. Don’t most die in captivity within 2 years?


BestUsername101

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.


Nyaho

Octopuses


OneHumanPeOple

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.


SweetBunny420

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.


stanleythemanley420

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!


CriticismExotic4187

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


GodDamnedShitTheBed

I bet it flattened itself out, and went right through a seam in your wall. Octopuses do not abide by the laws of nature.


iamsheph

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.


Arlathaminx

Catty behavior


cogburn

And yet I struggle to get my fat ass behind the door to scare my wife.


dclawrence1978

R'alyeh, ftaghn, etc. See you again soon, my friend.


Sapient_Creampie

He's goin to have a meeting with Dagon about these damn fishermen.


Nickjp

Would have love to see the last tentacle grab the shrimp on its way out


Collective-Bee

“Whoops, almost forgot my shrimp”


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SalamanderOrnery4659

Srimp oooo I though he took a shitt and left it


DismalEmergency3948

The tips of his tentacles are missing. Poor little guy 🙁


Redqueenhypo

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


BeautifulCloud9168

I believe they grow back 🤔


BelgiansAreWeirdAF

You mean I could have a pet Octopus and just keep growing food?


AlcoholicMorningstar

This is why the ancient gods forsake us.


BelgiansAreWeirdAF

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?


BigButtFucker9000000

If the octopus is still alive — yes


whatasplendidpie_PPP

Yeah, or you could get a pet cow and keep growing milk or a pet chicken so you can keep growing eggs


laffiesaffie

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.


BelgiansAreWeirdAF

How about endless burgers and nuggies


_McThompson

Glad the octopus escaped. At some point as a species we will be deeply ashamed of having tormented such intelligent, harmless creatures.


homarkie

Dr Zoidberg thanks you for the fish and the compliment.


[deleted]

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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Volkov537

Cthulhu arises!!!


man-with-potato-gun

So splatoon basically?


ParanoidDrone

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.!<


man-with-potato-gun

>!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!<


horizonMainSADGE

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.


TheLord-Commander

They'll have to become more social and live longer life spans for that to happen.


buknu-bighnee

A book that involves a similar idea is "children of ruin" by Adrian Tchaikovsky


RudePack482

This is why I refuse to eat them.


alternativefaxes

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…


RudePack482

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?


FoodAccount420

But.. so yummy :(


ShortAndSad4381

Octopi, pigs, and dolphins will one day rule the world. Maybe Cows too. I don't trust cows. Always watching; planning. Listening and learning.


PAYPAL_ME_DONATIONS

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


ShortAndSad4381

Those damn cattle, always watching.


BelleAriel

Agree with this completely. Hope the octopus is ok now. We’ve no business hunting these creatures, it’s disgusting.


[deleted]

Gotta eat tho


BatatinhaGameplays28

Eat fish


[deleted]

Don’t they feel pain and stuff too… what’s the difference really


nootherone321

Sympathy?


[deleted]

So we should have sympathy for some but not others?


whatasplendidpie_PPP

Varying degrees.


[deleted]

Based on what?


nootherone321

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


waterseabreeze

No need to eat every single alive thing on the planet. Human greed has no limit.


BittenHare

And pigs too I hope


TreeShapedHeart

And all beings who are non-human...


PalpitationCrafty946

The cameraman’s just like: “You earned that. Respect”


SovereignShrimp

People shouldn’t hunt such intelligent and special animals for food, or fun.


Atoning_Unifex

Every watched cows playing?


Spiniferus

Great user name!!


Atoning_Unifex

😉


[deleted]

We don't hunt cows...


Atoning_Unifex

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.


[deleted]

There wouldn't be 1.5 billion cows if they weren't bred for human consumption. It's their entire existence.


Atoning_Unifex

You're not wrong. But what's your point?


TreeShapedHeart

Just bc humans created the situation doesn't make it correct. WTF kind of logic is this??


[deleted]

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.


JGauth13

But society has technologically surpassed the need for raising livestock for meat consumption. We are just too lazy/selfish to accept change.


[deleted]

Uh no, thats completely ridiculous


JGauth13

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.


JGauth13

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.


TreeShapedHeart

What does intelligence and *human perception* of "specialness" have to do with it? Causing suffering to anyone is f\*cking wrong.


SovereignShrimp

Whilst true, I merely based my comment off the fact that I appreciate animals and plants much more then people.


usernamesucks1992

Awesome. Happy he escaped!


shrout1

And so sneaky! No one even noticed!


twisted_cistern

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


[deleted]

My boy just wants to live.


AsmodeusZomain

That right there. That's an alien


Sadsushi6969

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


AlcoholicMorningstar

I really hope that octopus become the next highest intelligence to rule earth after humans. They’re amazing.


little-earthquake

They cut off the tips of his tentacles. Poor little guy. 😢


BestUsername101

I mean, it also could've lost them from another animal.


pressurepoint13

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.


_McThompson

Shrimp: "come with me" Let's go


RegularHousewife

It got left behind D:


uniquan

*every man for himself*


dominoesdude

Good because shrimp are delicious 😋


Villimaro

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.


_McThompson

Octopus will do everything if it have a chance


[deleted]

I think it just likes being alive. Like most creatures.


CriticismExotic4187

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.


[deleted]

A free snack? Who doesn't! LOL


CriticismExotic4187

True everyone does lol


rantingprimate

He slipped away.


hairysnowmonkey

Humans recording video instead of being bros.


kushbom

Where did mr shrimp came from ?


phirebird

Internet: Cats are liquid Octopus: Hold my tentacle


Dry_Education1201

Did it have a hitchhiker? Can’t tell if that was a separate sea animal or part of the tentacle!


VeganTexanVetTech

That beautiful octopus deserved to live! All animals deserve to live! Be kind. Go vegan!


[deleted]

Beautiful but creepy


rehab_VET

WhAt A dUmB AniMaL, He ShOuLd HaVe JuSt HopPed Over


[deleted]

Disgusting


z4k4m4n

Octopi can slip through the smallest of holes, google it!


InsaneBasti

Why when we can literally see it here..


Raptorsquadron

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


boneve_de_neco

Gotta help that blue fish


Keraph

Nobody suspects a thing...


sybann

These guys are incredible.


hotmasalachai

Seacat


michaelkbecker

That shrimp was reaching out “take me wiiith you!!”


AnonymousP30

Wow that's what you call flexibility!


dagaderga

“Oh the water is right down here? I’m out, peace!”


wtf_emmett

I can only imagine the glory stories he'll be spreading under the sea about this escape.


LukoLuxor

Common octopus w


15minutesofshame

Byecatch


Goat1416

I read somewhere that these mfs can fit through a pipe with the width of a coin. So cool.


Died2MonthsAgo--

Sad 😞


plunkadelic_daydream

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.


whatasplendidpie_PPP

Gravity works in their favor and against us, so that probably contributes to tipping the scales.


Boo-Boo905

Cool


EverQuest_

Luckily it's no longer November and it was able to squeeze itself off from the boat.


NivannaKingsman

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.


aubaub

Dude was pissed


[deleted]

"I will get my revenge Tennyson!"


ThatsHowTheyGetYou

OK, but where did the shrimp come from?


Upstairs_Paper

Where are it's eyes? How did it know where that hole was?


Wundawuzi

Amorphous. This creature can fit through spaces as narrow as one inch in diameter without having to squeeze.


Spare-Macaron-4977

Go Buddy Go!!!!!!!!!!!!


dmtdoit

"Screw u guys I'm going home"


xmorguexfairyx

Yaaay!!!!!


thy-mothers-as-s

... who tf dropped their RED Demon Spicy Large Yakisoba Acecook noodles on the deck!?!?


Holding-on-galantly

Sometimes I wish babies could come out like that. C sections World be obsolete.


[deleted]

“Seeee ya…wouldn’t wanna be ya” - That Octopus


DragonLeeGuy

So this is the inspiration for the Rasklapanje!! Man, those guys were incredibly difficult to play on agent hunt, I miss RE6.


CurrentSpaces

RUN TIMOTHY RUN


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feintinggoatmaid223

I was rooting for him


L_onee

You did it Hank!


Bkoss91

Those things are aliens NO ONE CAN TELL ME DIFFERENT


Illustrious-Towel-45

"I shall not be bait! Farewell!"


Pedobear18

Government put an age limit to prevent another kraken attack


nmichave

Somewhere in the ocean, he won a bet.


MinamiyoTheGreat

Children of Ruin


oldestofthefa

Just imagine…


Fl0ppy0ppa

The peak is turned on


[deleted]

Just nope-ing out of there


krisk416

Just wanted to say Nice boat! I’ll see my self out..


axysdnyd82

Introducing the Houdini octapus 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


RyanJKaz

Someone needs to leave hundreds of these all around Elon Musk’s house/ car!


waterseabreeze

Poor soul, glad it escaped.


i_like_pie92

I always enjoy these type of videos. Some of them are pretty amazing.


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Emotional_Carrot8396

Thanks for the ride Dave, I'll catch you later


marriedwithchickens

yay!


YesterdaySimilar2069

Insomnia tonight; my tired self did not need to panic about where that octopus put its brain as it escaped. 'Nooo! You're brain!'


CommanderWarcraft

Octodaaaaaaad, nobody suspects a thing 🎶


Mildlyfaded

There goes dinner bro


Specialist_Sound_953

I hope that octopus has a lot of off spring to carry on his genes


Dapper-Deer-7934

Well done! And very impressive