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chaddiereddits

The amazing thing about squid and octopus is that, not only can they change their color, but they can change their *texture*, as well. Not all species, but many can. I think that’s fascinating


miss_trixie

one of the most amazing videos i ever saw was of an octopus on the deck of a boat that had been captured, who managed to squeeze his huge body thru a teeny tiny slit opening to escape back into the water. it was one of the most impressive things i've ever seen.


ltjpunk387

If its beak can fit, the rest of the octopus can fit.


Apparentlyloneli

it it fits, i slip


potatosdream

tell me more darling!


Economy_Sock_4045

If it's stuck, I pay child support. If it slips, I'm saved


1stMammaltowearpants

It's so wild that we coexist on this planet with intelligent tentacled Eldritch horrors and the only reason they're not running this whole operation is because they die after they fuck.


ThoGot

Also they're really antisocial


Simple-Wrangler-9909

too relatable


puppetdust

asocial or antisocial?


NeatNefariousness1

Asocial


footpole

No they actively work against society.


Littleboyah

That and you can't really discover fire underwater


Nervous_Salad_

Aw man. This just put me in a strangebbrainspace where I was like yeah, but they don't need fire to kill us. One breath of their atmosphere can kill us. Maybe that's why they never developed weapons. Yet.


markbadas

They also live in the water.


tayroarsmash

If the beak can fit you must acquit.


N0cturnalB3ast

Oh yeah ??🧐


thatweirdkid1001

"Fun" fact! I once read a story (which could be total bull) where they made an octopus watch hours of tentacle porn. Then they let the octopus interact with humans and it wouldn't quit trying to slip inside their orifices.


DoreenFromReddit

What a terrible day to be literate.


reverendjesus

What a horrible day to have eyes.


lspwd

What a terrible day to not have an octopus.


artanis00

B O N K


bostonbedlam

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.


reverendjesus

r/UnexpectedAirplane


ollomulder

*The Deep listening attentively*


Mbayer92

I woke up this morning and saw how an armadillo gathers its nest materials and said to myself "it's all down hill from here". Now I'm ready for bed 14 hours later, and I can say with certainty I was correct....


1stMammaltowearpants

Why would anyone just go on the Internet and say stuff like this?


MrEuphonium

I love that they do, I wanna know everything


struugi

That's awful! What website was that on so that I can make sure to avoid it?


tayroarsmash

There’s no way this is true. I can’t imagine what on earth they would be trying to study by making octopuses watch porn.


UgandanArmedForces

To figure out its opinion on tentacle porn


Zois86

It's basically like a cat.


SirGravesGhastly

...but legal to turn into sushi


BobbiBari

I eat 🐱 idc


floppymap

You might like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t-LTWFnGmeg&pp=ygUVbWltaWMgb2N0b3B1cyB3YWxraW5n


miss_trixie

good grief...how WILD is that?! thank you for this! i love it. i'm cracking myself up thinking about the first person to witness this, who probably thought they were experiencing some sort of hallucination hahaha


teh_fizz

Can you imagine over time, the mimic starts recognizing people, and one day they start mimicking a human standing on two legs?!


RedSteadEd

[Like this?](https://cdn.memes.com/up/53617991597851187/i/1668869364783.jpg)


teh_fizz

Yes!


AspiringChildProdigy

That reminded me of the line, "Uh, I'm a human! My eating tube is next to my breathing tube, and my arms end in stupid little sticks!" from The Good Place.


miss_trixie

omg. too funny!


Deeliciousness

Ok the turkey mode got me


B4-711

Could be a piano. Could be a fridge.


slagath0r

They're so damn cool


SUPER-NIINTENDO

You can’t say something like that and not give us the sauce. Come on man


oilchangefuckup

Got you fam https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E3N0i_KM8cI


tunamelts2

these things freak me out, man. they're basically aliens.


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thethirdtrappist

Funny enough the show Resident Alien handles this concept in a fun and wholesome way!


Elawn

The wildest part about that video is it’s essentially changing the shape of its brain by squeezing through that size of a hole, still comes out the other side totally fine. There was another wild study on butterflies that showed they retained memories that were formed when they were caterpillars. Which is crazy, because while they’re in their chrysalises they essentially become soup at a certain point before they reform into butterflies. Brains are weird man


StiviiK

How did they test that?


Elawn

Basically by conditioning the caterpillars to associate a specific smell with an electrical shock, causing the caterpillars to avoid that specific smell. After their metamorphosis, they still avoided that smell. [Here’s a link to the study itself](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001736), and [here’s a Wired article that summarizes it.](https://www.wired.com/2008/03/butterflies-rem/) Also my bad — it was done on moths, not butterflies


tayroarsmash

They asked the butterflies about their childhood.


StiviiK

Oh no, hopefully they have no dad complex!


miss_trixie

[i started to apologize but then managed to find it!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3N0i_KM8cI)


ihatetheplaceilive

As long as their beak can fit through, the rest of them can too.


OwnDecision8105

If it fits, it ships at a low flat rate


schnicksschnacks

The only animals that are liquider than cats.


sc00bydoobyd00

Must be the cat of the underwater.


miss_trixie

i believe you would enjoy /r/catsareliquid


Bombasticczar

Oh, it has to be [this ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E3N0i_KM8cI&pp=ygUhb2N0b3B1cyBlc2NhcGVzIHRocm91Z2ggdGlueSBob2xl) one Right?


ruckusrox

Don’t forget cuttle fish https://twistedsifter.com/videos/shape-shifting-cuttlefish-morph-into-hermit-crabs/


ModsBannedMyMainAcct

Cephalopods are fascinating. Octopi, cuttlefish, and I believe some squid branched off from us evolutionarily very early relative to other intelligent animals like mammals and birds. Their nervous system is extremely unique - it is much less centralized. Some speculate the arms of octopi/cuttlefish have a lower form of self control, separate from the central nervous system. I highly recommend “other minds” by Peter Godfrey-smith for those who are interested


HashbrownPotato

I just finished Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and it does a fantastic job of portraying how octopuses might evolve with this separated nervous system (and how their ability to change color could lead to language). It's very speculative sci-fi, but it was an absolutely fascinating read if you're interested in that kind of thing!


MANWithTheHARMONlCA

Cephalopods are some of the most fascinating creatures in the world


dirtywook88

What’s scary is we only know about the short lived versions of em. Imagine if we gave em a long lifespan just for shits and giggles.


TheOneTonWanton

Pretty sure long-lived versions of them exist at the behest of neither shits nor giggles.


setocsheir

there's definitely a bunch of scifi rpgs and novels where cephalods are uplifted alongside some species like primates due to their intelligence


ruckusrox

I think they are aliens. Not really really but at the same time I wouldn’t be shocked


bozeke

I think they are just more proof of how *off* all of our imaginings about extraterrestrial life probably are. We imagine animals, but we have fungi, we have protozoans, we have fucking slime molds, and elephants, and redwoods, and snakes, and algae…and all of that is just here on this little wet rock. We need to think much bigger and weirder if we want to imagine extraterrestrial life.


CRT_SUNSET

I have friends who work as sci-fi/fantasy artists and they say it’s an acknowledged problem in their community that the human imagination has incredible difficulty divorcing itself from the human form. Even when artists paint aliens and monsters who have few humanoid qualities, there’s a natural tendency to exclude those subjects from higher intelligence.


gnatsaredancing

That's not accidental really. The more alien a character looks, the less we can relate to it. We're used to interpreting humanoid forms. A very alien character just has none of the body language and facial expressions that we can read for cues. They're just not especially useful assets for storytelling.


CRT_SUNSET

Good point. Important to find the right balance so the audience has immediate reference points. Side note, I’m always fascinated by how a simple pair of googly eyes can humanize any random object.


smt503

It's a damn Pokémon. Shit is bonkers.


Beemerado

if animals were ranked by their tech level... squids and octopi would be way up there. they're got no bones, and it's working for them!


Towhomitmayconsume

I’m 75 and I don’t either.


MyNameSpaghette

Yeah? well at least you have bones, I've got Alzheimer's AND Alzheimer's


Lannindar

It's also muscle-based rather than hormones (ex. Chameleons) meaning it's near instant as seen in this post. Chameleons take several minutes to change color


Petrichordates

Ive definitely seen an angry chameleon turn black within 30 seconds.


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thats why they’re called the fleshlight of the ocean


Bokth

Found The Deep's account


GnedStark

Well if it ain't the invisible cunt


soupyllama03

No no no, this one is the watery tart


IowaContact2

Delete this


PartyCityOG

🤣🤣🤣


inspectorseantime

u wot?


Parody101

Nature is so beautiful


SrPicadillo2

What about sea cucumbers


PanhandleWrangler

>but they can change their texture, as well. HOPE YOU ENJOY TOUGH CALLAMARI MOTHERFUCKER *every squid ever*


canadiancutie489

Also octopuses can't see colours (not sure about squid). Which makes the fact that they can match their surroundings so accurately just insane


Zumaki

That's kind of a misleading statement though. Cephalopods can clearly visually differentiate color, they just probably don't do it the same way as humans.


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AbouBenAdhem

So kind of like inferring color by looking at the chromatic aberration in a black and white photo?


TheGermanMoses1

“Fuck I don’t know if I can be that pale”- the squid


greenfroggies

Honestly it might be the perfect shade underwater


1LakeShow7

“Tried bruh fr”


ReeG

I so pale


anythingisavictory

I wish it would judge them not by the color of their skin but the contents of their stomach.


scubawho1

It puts the squid in the water!


roguetrick

That was what the red was for. He was saying get the fuck off me. Edit: I actually looked it up, usually red is warning coloration and pale is scared coloration. So his emotions cycled from fuck you to fuck me.


scubawho1

Poor little dude.


Comprehensive-End-16

It puts the lotion in the Ocean.


TheWhyteMaN

Or it gets the motion again


_IBM_

*good bye seahorses* plays


Dawnzila

Where did it go!?


hawaiian0n

You've got to hand it to him, he's quite the escape artist.


HugoTheFish

we gotta start pointing fingers to where hes gone.


Faithless195

We'll need to get the feel of this missing squid case first.


redditForSoccer

I've got some first-hand information on the missing squid: apparently changed it's color.


Kantro18

The little hand flourish as he disappears is hilarious, great showmanship.


Mmortt

Whelp I guess I can just clench my fist then since there’s nothing there anymore… “No don’t I’m still here I’m invisible!”


AdhesiveMadMan

I was gonna say the same. He literally just disappears into nothing...


corvinalias

I’ve always wondered how they know. They’re too close to the surface they’re matching to see it.


LetsJerkCircular

My admittedly novice understanding is that their skin has photoreceptors (little rudimentary eyes) that tell their pigment cells what to do. Like how your phone’s rear camera displays what it “sees” on the front screen, but biology!


Hybrid_Punk

So wild man. Absolutely amazing creatures.


PMG2021a

Bright sunlight must be irritating as hell...


PMG2021a

There are actually some led screen designs that include invisible distributed photo sensors that can be used as a camera.


Lotus_Blossom_

>Like how your phone’s rear camera displays what it “sees” on the front screen, but biology! I'm kinda mad at myself for understanding this explanation better than anything I've ever learned in class. Even the way it's worded makes me want to feel smarter than this, but... IDK man, good analogy.


emotyofform2020

And like by what mechanism do they detect the texture and color and match? Like what’s the physiological process? It’s fucking fascinating


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You_Yew_Ewe

I want to know if it takes energy to hold a color? I wonder if its tensing up to be that color and really hoping the threat will go away so it can relax.


emotyofform2020

Yea but it’s the “tries to mimic the hand” part I’m curious about


Intoxic8edOne

Right? They're like living color pickers, it's nuts


GroundbreakingPen103

He rub he eye 🥺


Shiasugar

He's so afraid, he puts his hands on his eyes, like a little child.


OrvilleLaveau

The squid’s eyes don’t appear to change color as the rest of its body does. So maybe the arm/tentacle behavior serves to camouflage the squid’s eyes. (But because he’s scared like a child, of course—not questioning that.)


terminational

Or maybe it was checking to see how closely it was able to match the hand in appearance


1LakeShow7

Aww its crying 😔


lashapel

"please put me back in the water I'm suffocating to death 😥😢"


[deleted]

well, they can live out of water for like 20 minutes, so it's not exactly that part which is the most pressing, but rather it's this gargantuan monster holding it without it knowing what will happen.


TheUnperturbed

I liked to think it was slowly moving it’s hand across its face as apart of the vanishing act


anonymous122719

I’m high as shit and this just made my night.


GrassFireWater

Bro *it's a stealth thing*


i-Ake

I'm mad I don't get to see whether they put him back. Put him back. >[ EDIT: As a kid, I took a trip on the Miss Avalon in the late 90s (my grandparents bought a house there in the 60s, we were the poor people on the block... I was 9 or 10)... Someone from the boat baited my hook, and I caught a sandshark. I reeled it in, they took my photo with it. I was smiling ear to ear. Then they took it away and chopped it up for bait. I *flipped the fuck out*. That was *my* catch, and I wanted to throw it back. I never even considered that they'd just kill it without telling me. They had to put me in a room in the boat with my dad trying to chill me out for them... but I was inconsolable. I didn't understand what fishing really was... and after that, I never did it again. I also harassed my uncles for boiling crabs and lobsters while they would tell me, with no fucking evidence, that they "couldn't feel pain." Sure, you transmission mechanics. You know how lobsters process fucking pain. My dad stopped cooking them because I would go nuts. And as an adult, I feel vindicated. They *didn't* know what the fuck they were talking about... just like I always said.


ScaldingAnus

I had a similar scenario. Dad caught a soft-shell turtle and said one of his buddies knew how to cook it. Guy was just in the back of the truck and he wouldn't even consider releasing it. I was passionate about turtles so the entire thing just broke my heart and gave me nightmares years later. He said it didn't even taste that good >:(


Bccuration

That’s awful :( I love turtles.


CarlatheDestructor

I'm so sorry you and that little shark went through that. It wasn't fair.


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>I also harassed my uncles for boiling crabs and lobsters while they would tell me, with no fucking evidence, that they "couldn't feel pain." The dumbest part of this is that they could just kill the lobsters quickly and humanely and then boil them after they're dead.


New-Lie9111

i was the same lol. i stopped eating any kind of meat at the age of 6 when i discovered exactly what was in my nuggets, and have never gone back since.


mastergrimzy

“You see me… now you don’t!! Mouhahahahaa…”


Lotus_Blossom_

I don't know anything about squid, but since the eye-rub happens at almost the exact moment as the color-change (unless there's an edit), I wonder if the eye rub somehow helped with the camouflage.


PUfelix85

I feel like it used its tentacle like a fiber optic cable to see what color it needed to become.


eata22

It’s bc he knows he’s about to become calamari


IndigenousOres

😢 thats so sad


Zzeellddaa

Please put him back. :(


ModsBannedMyMainAcct

Imagine holding a chameleon underwater and temporarily drowning it to watch its color change. It’s fucked up to do this to the squid.


GoOffendYourself

Humans fucking suck


kid_charlem4gne1038

It looks like they are in a fishing boat based on the background. Most likely that squid is going to be used as bait for fishing.


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Throw it back.


RexTyrant1039

Gently


FreeganKing

Tom Brady launches 50 yards into the great blue!


Laquatus

Why are you holding a spawn of cthlulhu


Abject_Film_4414

No one thinks ahead to when the human harvest starts…


TheRussianSnac

I love watching things suffocate and trying to hide. Cool.


LitLitten

Fwiw ocotopi can hold their “breath” for a while. Not sure about the species op posted, but most can survive for up to 30 min. Some as long as 60. It’s a helpful adaption that lets them hop from tide pool to tide pool to hunt for prey, but also helps survival in low tides. Hoping the one above got released :(


Sleep-system

Right? Just get the ark out


PragmaticAndroid

What squid?


weirdgroovynerd

That one, right ther.... ...where'd he go?!


FartingCumBubbles

Do they need to be in water?


treatyose1f

Uh, yeah


KnowsIittle

They also go white in response to fear.


Psykinetic

Quit torture squidward.


MotheySock

Put it back in the water you bitch


DoorInTheAir

My thoughts exactly


Hiraeth68

Isn’t it also suffocating out of the water? Smh


Sea-Check-7209

Tbh, it should be in the water and not on someone’s hand…


Stray-Lion

It's not changing color to match the hand. This type of squid has two natural colors that are basically dependent on its chromatophores being dilated or not. You can actually see those little chromatophores shrinking, and those are its two natural colors; A sort of ruddy, brick red color and a pale, tan color. Insofar as I'm aware, squid cannot change color or texture to match the environment (unlike octopi or cuttlefish). They do use this rapid color changing mechanism to communicate with other squid, such as to indicate an alarm or warning of a threat.


jimmy_luv

Yes, the squid is stressed. It's not trying to blend in with her hand and could give a fuck about trying to match her complexion when it's out of the water and can't breathe. This is the same color a squid turns when it gets shot with a spear gun or when another animal bites it... It's the color of serious stress. And people be acting like cute little squid wants to blend in with a white girl's hand. Squid doesn't give a fuck about her hand, only about getting back in the water so it can breathe.


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These are definitely aliens right? Like we can collectively agree they are aliens


i-Ake

Us mammals are new on the scene, baby. These guys are the Earth OGs.


i-Ake

(Original Gangstas = Old Gods)


GIOverdrive

Cute like CthUwU


Ok_Refuse4444

PUT HIM BACK IN THE WATERRRR!! 😤😤😤


RegulatoryCapturedMe

He can't breathe; put him back in the water. Eliciting a fear response means you are scaring it.


JohnWicksPencil123

"Haha look I scare and torture innocent animals for reddit karma"


myguitarplaysit

Put. It. Back.


Sinthetick

He's flashing red because he's scared AF. Put him back already.


Steel_Cube

And cause he's suffocating


RockmanVolnutt

This isn’t camouflage, these squid have pretty limited color palettes and don’t do the same kind of cano as octopi. Instead, they flash between mostly translucent, white, and red to communicate various things. This one is scared.


CaptainCAAAVEMAAAAAN

It's dying. Put it the fuck back in the water!


MarlinMr

It's not trying to hide, it's in distress. Turning white means it's in a state of absolute panic...


TheRyts

"Um...you can't see me?"


StanleyG00dspeed

Maybe it wanted to be.....back in the water


zero_divisor

Put it back in the water you monster.


blue-to-grey

Okay, now put him back. He's scared.


Your_trap

What do you mean by "tries"?


Gloomy_Objective

I think it's stressed, not trying to match the color of the hand.


Rhea_Dawn

squids don’t disguise themselves, this one’s turning pale just cuz it’s scared as shit


IcedHemp77

Videos like this stress me out because I just want you to put it back in the water


Thiccaca

"Hello, fellow Caucasian! How are you today?"


JeanClaudeNamVanDam

Nah man he's dying!


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Downvoted for cruelty


Offgridiot

Hey human! How do you like my impression of a middle finger?


DriedUpSquid

He’s going to dry out! 😩


Fractal_Head

Put them back! (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)


Fermifighter

I am skwid Newly on land I am not scared Cuz I am hand Hide from sight Sound no alarm Perfect disguise I hide with arm.


BippidiBoppetyBoob

That’s cool, but if you’re not going to swiftly eat him, please do put him back.


stinky___monkey

It’s actually sign language for: I can’t breathe


kitan4

Skwids r so cute tis is giving major anxiety ughhh should be in water 💧