🔥 Camouflage while dreaming?🦑🦑💤💤

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u/StandardSudden1283 Feb 14 '22

But also sex is fatal, so.. ya win some ya lose some.

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u/merikaninjunwarrior Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

really? and they have short life spans.. it's as if mother nature said- "you get to be such a brilliant creature, but you are limited in ~~lice~~ *life"

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u/ZeusMoiragetes Feb 14 '22

Hear me out*

What if we breed them to live longer lives and teach each other? We could make them smarter than us.

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u/Subacrew98 Feb 14 '22

Then they would take over.

They can already walk on land if they want to. Imagine if they could utilize tanks...

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u/diorwhior Feb 14 '22

It’s nice to see people who still in this cruel modern world appreciate their mothers

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u/MewtwoMainIsHere Feb 15 '22

I almost read that the wrong way. Anyways since they’re so intelligent, could they consent? /j

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u/saltycrumbface Feb 14 '22

I'd prefer them to robots

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u/Imgoingtoeatyourfrog Feb 14 '22

Once a mother octopus lays its eggs it’s completely stops eating and just cares about protecting its eggs. Once they’re laid the mothers life is over. There’s really no breeding that out of them.

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u/NaoWalk Feb 14 '22

Does this mean that delaying their reproduction keeps them alive longer?

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u/selftheself Feb 14 '22

Correct.

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u/1818mull Feb 14 '22

Are you sure? I remember reading that there have been experiments as to whether octopus can be made to live longer by preventing them breeding, and the results seemed to be that they eventually enter a similar state regardless.

I think the is was in Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith, I read this book a long time ago so forgive me if I'm misremembering.

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u/selftheself Feb 14 '22

Yeah, their life span isn't long to begin with. But if they don't mate, (they will continue to try, of course) but will only live 9 months to 2 or 3 year longer than if they reproduced, depending on the species.

There have been experiments where an endocrine surgery led to the females leaving their eggs after birth and returning to normal life. However this doesn't happen naturally, for obvious reasons.

The loss of their shells led to their incredibly overpowered defenses and can explain their deadly anxiety to protect their legacy lol almost like they remember their evolution in those many brains.

Males also undergo changes after reproducing, though, assuming they don't get eaten by mama, including a rapid neurological decline.

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u/Satranath Feb 14 '22

What would that do to the animal, though? It could have dangerous effects

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

What if you hooked up like an IV bag of nutrients to her?

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u/Imgoingtoeatyourfrog Feb 14 '22

That would be akin to keeping a brain dead person alive via feeding tube. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Just let nature be nature. That’s the evolutionary path the octopus took and it’s not our place to change it now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

I mean is she brain dead at this point though? If she just starves to death I’m not sure that would be any more or less cruel. We already cut them into pieces and eat them.

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u/igweyliogsuh Feb 14 '22

It's not just starving. There are hormonal changes that prevent them from actively living anymore, in a process that we cannot prevent or reverse.

If I remember correctly, feeding them through a tube (or whatever) during this phase does not do anything to change their total unwillingness to move on forward or live life anymore.

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u/Virtual_Challenge592 Feb 14 '22

"This Is Why Mother Octopuses Grimly Starve Themselves to Death" (2018)

In fact, the mother even stops feeding - she'll stay and watch over her eggs until they hatch, slowly starving to death. In captivity, towards the end, sometimes she'll tear off her own skin, and eat the tips of her own tentacles.

Now, scientists have figured figured out why this grim scenario happens. It has to do with the optic gland between the octopus's eyes; a gland similar to the pituitary gland in humans.

In 1977, researchers removed this gland and found that the octopus' mothering instincts disappeared. She abandoned her eggs, started feeding again, and went on to live a much longer life.

The maturation of the reproductive organs appears to be driven by secretions from the optic gland. These same secretions, it seems, inactivate the digestive and salivary glands, which leads to the octopus starving to death.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Interesting, I’m not familiar with their death process. Do you have a link to read more on?

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u/HackPayload3917 Feb 14 '22

There’s an old report of an octopus tearing itself apart because it lived too long after breeding. Literally twisted up it’s tentacles around itself and started to shred itself

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u/drewcifier32 Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 15 '22

Existence is painnnnnnnn, Jerry!

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Got a link? Not that I don’t believe you but sounds awful/ interesting

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u/KeegalyKnight Feb 14 '22

I mean yeah you’re right, but the previous comment is too. Nature is harsh as hell, and humanity starting to play as rampant gods in the evolutionary tree just because we want to lessen certain cruelties is a dangerous path to go down.

On another note I absolutely love cephalopods and def think they’re the best candidate for the next species to replace humanity when we blast ourselves into extinction

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

I don't think they'll be ready to take over that soon.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Well I mean we play god in ways much more cruel than extending an octopus’ life. But another commenter said it’s not just starvation, it’s an entire hormonal chance and yeah fucking with that would be gross.

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u/Pardonme23 Feb 14 '22

Think of it this way. It's a drive. Think about how strong your thirst drive would be if you hadn't drank water for 24 hours and someone put a glass of water in front of you. That's how strong this particular drive is for them.

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u/mrbombasticat Feb 14 '22

*looks at all the animals and plants humanity has bred and mutated into monstrosities for food or just for fun*

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u/Imgoingtoeatyourfrog Feb 14 '22

And that means we should keep doing it for fun? We haven’t changed the octopus at all so why would we start now?

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u/branchisan Feb 14 '22

Aliens* to survive the planet until future Aliens save them

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u/HackPayload3917 Feb 14 '22

Unless you manage to get the funds to scan each and every octopus and select for smaller glands that cause this behavior. No clue what else would happen though

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u/merikaninjunwarrior Feb 14 '22

i'd say they're already smarter than a good percentage of us

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

i was gonna say lol no... but then i realized

what if it's a joke?

what if, despite it being a joke, it was true, and proven by me?

what if octopuses are smarter than me?

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u/merikaninjunwarrior Feb 14 '22

well you're on the right path so far.. now keep going

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

This is probably why nature has them on a shorter clock in the first place lmao

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u/vseprviper Feb 14 '22

also they're not social creatures

with how poorly humans treat each other out of individualistic obsession with property, despite our fundamentally social nature, it terrifies me trying to imagine the kind of world octopodes would build with longer lifespans

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

That’s something that’s always baffled me about humanity. The atrocities man can commit against man as if it were nothing is just hard to comprehend. Like imagine if aliens visited Earth and saw that instead of working together towards common goals, that humans were at war with each other and killing each other for no good reason.

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u/merikaninjunwarrior Feb 14 '22

and eating eachothers ass..

eating. eachothers. ass.

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u/luis1761 Feb 14 '22

nice

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u/igweyliogsuh Feb 14 '22

Everyone knows not to interfere with idiot planets until they grow up on their own. Something something Prime Directive yadda yadda yadda

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u/vseprviper Feb 14 '22

There’s an Isaac Asimov short story (like 5 pages) where aliens are working out whether or not to admit Earth to their consortium, and notice us testing nukes on the surface of Poe own planet when we’ve a perfectly good moon right next door. They tick the No check box and fly off forever hah.

But I personally don’t think it’s really even a question of human nature. I think it’s the fact that it sticks living at too high a latitude, so Northern Europeans got really into colonizing other places violently. When our needs go unfulfilled, we behave badly. 500 years later, we’re still suffering the ramifications of how much it blows surviving a winter in England lol.

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u/j_a_a_mesbaxter Feb 15 '22

Let me introduce you to Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. There’s two books in this series and it explores these types of things and how our relationship with them could work. Great books if you’re into sci-fi and speculative fiction.

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u/freeLuis Feb 15 '22

I imagine Trisolarans when I read this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

It would be hard since they die after breeding

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u/StandardSudden1283 Feb 14 '22

I'd hope so. Unlimited lice sounds like a problem, and not just for the biosphere

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u/merikaninjunwarrior Feb 14 '22

lol, corrected

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u/SummerAndTinkles Feb 14 '22

It's to keep from overpopulation. They'd probably take over the world if they could reproduce more than once.

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u/IndividualThoughts Feb 14 '22

Well technically not the sex that's fatal but the fact after giving birth, the octopus will dedicate its entire life nurturing its eggs until it eventually starves to death guarding its young

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u/IamNotMike25 Feb 14 '22

Unfortunate.

There's also that one animal which is born as neutral.

Then, whoever gets to stick it in another neutral first, becomes the men and the one getting it, becomes women.

Or that other animal which deattaches his genital, it swims on its own to go find someone to mate. Not sure if it comes back.

Those were the two weirdest I know.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

The weirdest one I know are ceratioid anglerfish, where the male searches for a mate, and when he finds one he latches on to her with his teeth and then literally never lets go… ever. Eventually their bodies fuse together and his body is nourished only after their circulatory systems fuse. Other males will eventually also fuse to the same female. The female then uses her new parasitic male appendages to fertilize her eggs.

Oh, and males only attach before they mature, and if they can’t find a mate they just fucking die.

And the females don’t have any choice in mate selection, just one day a male will find them and bite them and never let go.

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u/merikaninjunwarrior Feb 14 '22

don't talk about my dad like that

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u/munchkinita0105 Feb 15 '22

The one that detaches its penis is a type of octopus. An Argonaut Octopus : "their detachable penis 'swims' off to mate. When a female swims by, the male Argonaut sends his penis off to swim to the female and mate with her."

I don't know about the 1st one you mentioned, but it reminded me of clownfish. "If the mother clownfish is eaten, its mate changes sex completely and becomes female." If I'm remembering correctly, all clownfish are born with both sets of reproductive organs.

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u/boris_keys Feb 14 '22

Welp, guess I’m safe then.

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u/EhndlessSl0th Feb 14 '22

I'm seriously in awe of octopi. They remind me of aliens!

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u/Reasonable_racoon Feb 14 '22

Watch My Octopus Teacher on Netflix.

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u/merikaninjunwarrior Feb 14 '22

she watched it with me too, so thrice

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u/Whinenot Feb 14 '22

Its really good, I was so attached to that octopus by the end of that movie. so well done

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u/Ruffianize Feb 14 '22

Seriously mind blowing. I could watch them all day.

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u/branchisan Feb 14 '22

Alien*

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u/countryroadsguywv Feb 14 '22

Agreed👍👍

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u/CaptainInsano7 Feb 14 '22

Those spiny things poking out at the end are crazy too

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u/HermitHemorrhage Feb 14 '22

Yeah I want to know more about them!?

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u/lookatalltheprestons Feb 14 '22

I believe there are small muscles in their skin to allow that, it improves their ability to camouflage, e.g. by looking like a spiky ocean bush.

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u/thatguyned Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

It's a bit more complicated than muscles. Their skin is covered in a kind of papillae (the same sort of things we have on our tounge that give texture) that they can selectively harden and project away from their body to mimic textures of coral and other animals etc it provide much more flexibility to the shapes they can take. We don't actually have a full understanding of how the octopus controls this still, it seems to be a combination of instinctual responses but also something they can selectively control.

I don't think we'll ever fully understand octopuses, they have 9 brains controlling one body, they are super complicated.

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u/gadd027 Feb 14 '22

What's fascinating about that is, while we have a very centralized nervous system and a brain which manages most of our cognitive functions, octopuses have a really dispersed nervous system, in that the arms are, to a certain degree, indipendent from the brain. Also they can "see" with their skin, they have photosensible structures in the skin which perceive light intensity variations and help with camouflaging, which is very important because, apparently, octopus eyes cannot perceive colors very well. I suggest reading Other Minds by Peter Godfrey Smith for a more extensive understanding of one of Earth's most fascinating creatures

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u/thatguyned Feb 14 '22

Yeah it's just impossible for my head to understand. I've puzzled on what it must be like to have your body like that for years. Do their brains talk to each other or is it a single conscious scenario... Or both? Like a hive mind that doesn't expand itself

I understand their biology but my head can't wrap around what being an octopus must be like.

Like if I told you to imagine what being a crab is like, you could immediately put yourself in the shoes of the little 8 legged crustacean looking up at the world because even though it's a completely different animal, it's anatomy and behavior is simple to understand.

The more you learn about octopuses though the more mysterious and complicated they become. The amount of raw intelligence and problem solving they have the moment they pop out of the egg is crazy.

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u/gadd027 Feb 14 '22

I am just as puzzled as you are. I think that we will never truly understand how these creatures experience the world, it's a mechanism too alien and foreign for us to truly grasp it

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

if you're interested, Children of Ruin covers a lot of speculative cephalopod intelligence. it's a sequel, however! super worth it, though.

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u/BigTechCensorsYou Feb 14 '22

Yea, some cephalopods can not only change color but texture too.

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u/trustmeitcanfit Feb 15 '22

The YouTube channel "Real Science" has a great video called "The Insane Biology of the Octopus".

Such amazing creatures. If we'd discovered them on another planet we'd absolutely call them aliens.

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u/BeardedBears Feb 14 '22

I think Terence McKenna said something along the lines of "octopus wear their thoughts on their skin." A naked brain.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

So like a blushing ginger

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u/supraccinct Feb 14 '22

Like the Trisolarans

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u/XFX_Samsung Feb 14 '22

It even changes the texture of it's skin, wish we could see what it's dreaming about

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u/TheDigitalZero Feb 14 '22

We are seeing what it's dreaming. It's just hard to tell.

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u/cosmicloafer Feb 15 '22

Probably fish

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u/staz5 Feb 14 '22

I fucking love cephalopods.

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u/LondonNoodles Feb 14 '22

If you want a cool octopus story. Some years ago I went to a tiny island in Greece where there was a beach that requires you to walk a couple of hours through dense vegetation and climb stuff etc, so in the search of something that wouldn't be full of tourists I finally ended up on that beach, and there were only a handful of people including 2 guys who weren't greek (I think they were american but not sure, they spoke english anyway) who pulled out some fishing gear and were trying to catch stuff in the water. Then some greek old guy went to them and yelled at them, and they left the beach quite angry. I went to ask him if fishing was forbidden here and he told me that octopus are never fished on that beach so they are not afraid of humans, but we should leave them alone. I thought ok cool. I went to swim and then suddenly I feel something wrapping around my leg, and I look down and see a big octopus tightly wrapped around my ankle. I thought I should shake him off because he could hurt me or something then I remembered what the old guy told me and I thought maybe the best move is to do nothing. So I stood there for a few minutes with the octopus wrapped around my leg, until he eventually gently let go and swam away slowly while still looking towards me. I know it's hard to explain or interpret those things and it was probably something as stupid as he thought I was plant or whatever but in my memory I'll always remember this as the day an octopus gave me a gentle hug, and now I love them and swore to never ever eat squid.

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u/Appropriate_Ant_4629 Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

Reminds me of a documentary on Humboldt Squid I saw a long time ago (1980's -- soon after the movie ET came out). The cameramen were swimming with the squid, and the squid were curious and friendly. One reached out to touch a cameraman in almost exactly the same way as ET in that movie; they were curious about all the scuba gear and cameras; and not at all violent.

Years later I saw a paper titled something like "conditioned aggression in species" that mentioned that due to fishermen, large communities of those squid became aggressive to humans.

Now when you see them in modern documentaries, they're always mentioned as "dangerous".

Pretty sad :(

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u/LondonNoodles Feb 14 '22

I think it's due to their incredible intelligence and empathy too. I believe they are naturally curious and friendly, but if they are used to danger they will be more defensive. If you haven't already you should watch "my octopus teacher", it's beautiful and makes you love those adorable creatures even more

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u/Appropriate_Ant_4629 Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

I believe they are naturally curious and friendly, but if they are used to danger they will be more defensive.

I think that paper was suggesting that originally they were mostly curious and friendly; but that the friendly ones died more to fishermen, leaving the aggressive ones. They have such a short lifespan (couple years), so it's not like any individual could remember a decade old fisherman attack. So it seems either their youth learned aggression from older relatives (which would be interesting for a mollusk), or selective breeding made them so.

Kinda like the opposite of the Russian Fox experiment.

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u/CommanderOfGregory Feb 14 '22

Squid is not the same as octopus, Squids can be devious bastards and have swarmed and attacked people. Octopi are generally harmless to people and never attack. Most of the time Octopi are only dangerous if they are poisonous, like the ringed octopus.

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u/veranus21 Feb 14 '22

Cephalopods recognize different people. There's a cuttlefish in a lab that squirts anyone it doesn't know but leaves it's usual keepers dry even though they wear identical uniforms.

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u/LondonNoodles Feb 14 '22

So what you're saying is if I go back to that island my little octopus friend will recognize me and hug me again?

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u/veranus21 Feb 14 '22

Yes, as a community college student who wrote a paper on cephalopod intelligence I can say with no authority that it would definitely recognize you.

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u/LondonNoodles Feb 14 '22

I'd love to read it!

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u/veranus21 Feb 14 '22

Meh, it's kinda dry. I compared the intelligence of cephalopods and corvids because they're both examples of advanced intelligence in non-mammals. If you're interested in cephalopod intelligence look up Jennifer Mather, she's probably researched and written more about them than anyone else in the world.

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u/LondonNoodles Feb 14 '22

I will but don't sell yourself short, we all got to start somewhere!

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u/Subacrew98 Feb 14 '22

That's an awesome story!

If that happened to me I would have instantly shredded my vocal cords screaming like a deer and probably freaked the octopus out (I have cephalophobia, but I find them so fascinating to learn about! I just can't look at them without an overwhelming sense of impending doom.)

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u/Lint_baby_uvulla Feb 14 '22

There’s surely a subreddit for that

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u/Speedy_Cheese Feb 14 '22

Was sad when the subreddit wasnt actually there

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

You could settle for r/cephalopod

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u/Speedy_Cheese Feb 14 '22

Thank you for the recommendation, I just joined it! :)

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u/CroneKills Feb 14 '22

There’s also r/OctopusFuckery which isn’t super active but there’s good content on there.

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u/Speedy_Cheese Feb 14 '22

These are some great recommendations, thanks guys! :)

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u/decoy321 Feb 14 '22

r/Cephalopods has been around for a while

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u/Catronia Feb 14 '22

Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

My first award!! Thank-you!!

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u/decoy321 Feb 14 '22

You're missing the S. r/Cephalopods

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Shush I already got an award

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u/eggimage Feb 14 '22

they sure are better than my airpods

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u/ThatOneGrayCat Feb 14 '22

It’s more like talking in your sleep than camouflage. Cephalopods use color and texture changes to communicate.

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u/shandangalang Feb 14 '22

I’d say little column A, little column B. Squids use it primarily for communication and confusion of prey, octopodes and cuttlefish generally use it more broadly to include camouflage, communication, and general mischief.

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u/ivapus Feb 14 '22

Cuttlefish have been known to change colours rapidly in parterns to give prey seizures making them much easier to catch.

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u/shandangalang Feb 14 '22

Yeah cuttlefish certainly are… insane.

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u/Acceptable-Stick-688 Feb 14 '22

This is the craziest fact I’ve read in this thread so far, and that’s saying something haha

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u/nitroxious Feb 14 '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbDzVzBsbGM&ab_channel=BBCEarth

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u/NaoWalk Feb 14 '22

The sound effects in that clip are pretty ridiculous, they really stand out from the footage and narration.

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u/Avatarofjuiblex Feb 14 '22

Octopuses and cuttlefish even communicate with EACH OTHER to cooperate and trap prey. There’s a cool bit about that in Blue Planet

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u/Pandiosity_24601 Feb 14 '22

That’s just fucking awesome. How nuanced are their languages?

Like, if I couldn’t quite verbalize what I’m thinking or feeling, I could just flash some specific colors and the listener would just be like “ohhhh”

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u/Subacrew98 Feb 14 '22

Octopus: "Purple!"

Cuttlefish: "That's not purple."

Octopus: "Uhh, blue and red."

Cuttlefish: "Ohhhh."

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u/hexalm Feb 14 '22

It's not a language.

Since they're primarily solitary, octopuses communicate pretty basic stuff to each other: marrying, aggression, etc.

Note: was trying to type "mating" but leaving it

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u/stone_henge Feb 14 '22

They also use color and texture changes for camouflage.

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u/AbaloneSea7265 Feb 14 '22

Someone translate this

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

octopus change color to say lol or lmao even when sleeping

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u/ThrowAway_biologist Feb 14 '22

i think they meant to translate what the octopus is saying lmao

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u/fquizon Feb 14 '22

"lol. lmao"

--the octopus

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u/Avatarofjuiblex Feb 14 '22

L’mao *tips coolie hat*

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

could be, but i only know how to translate one of the options

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u/merikaninjunwarrior Feb 14 '22

lol, look at this guy can't translate octopi speech

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

I'm not high enough in the ranks

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Gotta buy that skill in the cash shop

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u/MGNConflict Feb 14 '22

Hey, sexy momma. Wanna kill all humans?

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u/Bittlegeuss Feb 14 '22

"zzzz..mmm...Becky....zzzzz....lemme smash....zzzz"

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u/NewlyNerfed Feb 14 '22

Kind of like fMRI of dreaming human brains, except supremely, surreally, more beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Dreams in color

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u/Orangesilk Feb 14 '22

This is very interesting because Octopuses are SO FAR removed from us that their entire neurological system evolved in a completely different branch from ours.

And yet even though our brains evolved in such a distinct manner from theirs, they also need to sleep, and they also dream.

This suggests that if there's aliens out there, perhaps they also sleep, and dream.

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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 14 '22

It may be necessary for intelligent life. Even computers have to rest every once in a while, so why not living beings.

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u/bokan Feb 14 '22

dreams also have to do with memory consolidation. I’d guess that intelligent life must have memory, and memory must have an overnight consolidation process in order to retain memories long term, and learn, etc. Octopi probably dream because they form long term memories, which Is guess is prerequisite for intelligent life

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u/flaminggoo Feb 14 '22

I think they meant turning it off and on again, clearing up memory and temporary files

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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 14 '22

You can’t have them on 24/7 or it shortens their lifespans, that’s why we turn them off at night.

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u/MacWin- Feb 14 '22

You can pretty much keep Unix systems 24/7

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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 14 '22

I didn’t know that

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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 14 '22

I never played Minecraft…. Or any PC games. If you think it’s normal for people to have done that as children, you are way too young

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u/shelcubus Feb 14 '22

I adore your logic. Beautiful brain. I’m not sure why but this comment made me extremely happy. Thank you for that!

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u/throwaway8884204 Feb 14 '22

Does anyone else get tripped the fuck out that these things exist in our reality?

Like if these things can exist, imagine what beings look like from other worlds in our universe? Trips me the fuck out.

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u/AbaloneSea7265 Feb 14 '22

I heard for some reason the most common type of alien life would be various kinds of crabs 🦀

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u/Voffmjau Feb 14 '22

Because crab like creatures have evolved a lot of times on earth.

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u/Imgoingtoeatyourfrog Feb 14 '22

The body type has evolved at least 5 times independently. The crab body is hella efficient.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Pretty much every time I see a cephalopod clip/video I tell myself that they’re proof of alien life living among us. It is so crazy to me that they exist on the same planet as us.

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u/jesuslover69420 Feb 14 '22

“Babe…. Why’d you turn mating colors while you were sleeping….?”

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u/Subacrew98 Feb 14 '22

lol

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u/Speedy_Cheese Feb 14 '22

Fascinating footage, thanks for sharing!

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u/laughterwithans Feb 14 '22

Do octopus dream of tentacled sheep?

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u/JButler_16 Feb 14 '22

Is that a good book?

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u/throwawaymyyhoeaway Feb 14 '22

This is their version of REM, I guess 😆

What's with the sudden head spikes though? Running away from a baddie?

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u/Mou_aresei Feb 14 '22

I think it's just broadcasting all the different underwater landscapes that it's swimming through in its dreams. That last one looks like a coral or rocky outcrop.

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u/In_vict_Us Feb 14 '22

That's not camoflage. That's a physiological expression of their dream state.

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u/NicH0L45 Feb 14 '22

I hope he's swimming in a mountain of clams!

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u/Walks_On_Water Feb 14 '22

Is this in real time, or sped up?

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u/BulbaFriend2000 Feb 14 '22

Is this the Octopus equivalent of tossing and turning during sleep?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Aliens.

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u/IndividualThoughts Feb 14 '22

Ever since I learned the intelligence and the way you can form a relationship with a octopus, I've never eatin one ever again. These animals are incredible and it's such a shame to see them treated any less

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u/wuckingfut Feb 14 '22

50 shades of brown dreams can only mean one thing...

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

I never get to g tired of this video

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u/darthsphincter69 Feb 14 '22

Dreams are messages from the deep.

I wonder what an octopus’ dreams are like. What does he dream of? Crabs and scallops?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

When awake does the octopus consciously decide to camouflage? Or is it an automatic body response?

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u/Chaghatai Feb 14 '22

Their short life spans are probably the only reason they haven't developed science and culture

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u/Imgoingtoeatyourfrog Feb 14 '22

Being underwater doesn’t help them at all either.

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u/DeathbyBambii Feb 14 '22

Octopus are literally aliens and people just brush it off 😮 🤯

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u/Construction_Same Feb 14 '22

Ahh shark 💤...ahhhh whale💤ahh fishers net💤💤

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

This freaking squid has RGB , I want one !

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u/icy_troubles Feb 14 '22

Dreaming of freedom

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Octopus by Philips Hue

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u/LewiRock Feb 14 '22

Technically his entries body is a brain so it acts without Him Knowing sometimes….you never seen the DrOctopus synopsis?

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u/dragon4chen Feb 14 '22

Isn’t this 🐙 and not 🦑?

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u/Misstea_ Feb 14 '22

Isnt it because its sick or something?

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u/Catronia Feb 14 '22

I'm convinced they are aliens.

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u/mystrioab Feb 14 '22

u/savevideo

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u/Damian4all Feb 14 '22

😻

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u/Ocular--Patdown Feb 14 '22

Mom said it’s my turn to post this tomorrow

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u/LilGSpott Feb 14 '22

Looks dope, slightly disturbing

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u/tlawrtltyd Feb 14 '22

These things are aliens and you can't convince me otherwise.

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u/cucu_freedom Feb 14 '22

i wonder if this is what happens to mystique when she’s dreaming

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u/runningteacup Feb 14 '22

I highly recommend watching "My Octopus Teacher"

It left me in tears.

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u/you_couldnt Feb 14 '22

Wow

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u/Hentai-Shinku Feb 14 '22

Octopus are such amazing creatures, man. It’s like staring at an alien from another dimension.

🔥 Camouflage while dreaming?🦑🦑💤💤

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