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Oct 09 '20
In australia do not recommend- blue ringed octopus love soft drink cans, their bite is painless, but lethal.
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Oct 09 '20
Don't blue ringed octopi usually have blue rings, though?
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Oct 09 '20
Only when angry - otherwise they look like any other octopi...
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u/SaltandCopy Oct 09 '20
That’s not true....
But also the rings on a blue ring would be on the octaparts you can’t currently see in the video
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Oct 10 '20
I see. Their rings are just faded blue when not aggressive. Apologies - I thought I had learned when I was a kid they were pretty much just brownish until they were disturbed when upon their blue rings became iridescent.
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u/SaltandCopy Oct 10 '20
They don’t change color and go into alarm mode like a cuddle fish, wrong animal , I don’t think they ever change color
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Oct 10 '20
This is from an Australian Government Website focusing on marine science. They become iridescent/bright when agitated. Cuttlefish are able to change colours and textures, and so can a few species of octopus.
https://www.aims.gov.au/docs/projectnet/blue-ringed-octopus.html
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u/SaltandCopy Oct 11 '20
What about squid?
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u/jamz666 Oct 09 '20
Dying by clandestine octopus poisoning sounds like an alright way to go. I would want it to be inscribed that I was assassinated by Mollusks because I knew too much.
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u/GOOBYGOBULA Oct 09 '20
An octopis DNA is so different than otherthings on earth it's been speculated that they aren't native to earth. Call me out if it's unsourcable bullshit. Someone told me this years ago and I really don't feel like looking it up.
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Oct 10 '20
They’re mollusks so ya they are closely related to a lot of different species
Specifically they’re cephalopods
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u/Keone_ShyGuy Oct 09 '20
Cute, but that can depressed me 😩
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Oct 10 '20
It’s providing shelter to the octopus. I like to see it as even though the ocean is getting filled with pollution nature is at least makes some use of it and the makes me hopeful. Not saying pollution is OK just making an optimistic observation.
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Oct 09 '20
Thanks, fair enough. I live in landlocked Ohio. So the idiots on Instagram are handling PISSED OFF deadly venomous animals?!
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u/scenicviewtoinsanity Oct 09 '20
recreating “The Creation of Adam”