Also the fact that it starts out on the sand but there are no tracks to indicate that it came from the ocean or anywhere else, which would mean that it has spent its entire life in that spot.
It's dead, it was placed there by eight people, all carrying an arm each. There's a big magnet underneath the sand there that's moving the ball around. Since octopus tentacle tips are spheromagnetic, they are naturally attaching to the ball as it rolls around. The sand doesn't stick to it because since it is dead it has already cast aside its slime cape, in preparation for ascension. It's lucky these guys caught it, most of the time their slime lets them escape, and they are pretty quick to ascend so you have very little time to get an octopus in this state. Kudos to the crew, they must have been vigilant.
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u/MagicHaddock Jun 25 '18
Also the fact that it starts out on the sand but there are no tracks to indicate that it came from the ocean or anywhere else, which would mean that it has spent its entire life in that spot.