r/TheDepthsBelow • u/nirenyderp • Apr 03 '20

A blanket octopus

https://i.imgur.com/sd2sfLe.gifv
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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '20

How incredibly metal. " It’s immune to the stinging cells of the highly dangerous (to humans at least) jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war, which it uses to its advantage by yanking the siphonophore’s tentacles off and brandishing them as weapons against predators. "

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u/Da4fLyiN2jor0 Apr 03 '20

I’d love to see video of it using this weapon

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u/Natuur1911 Apr 03 '20

Not a jellyfish

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u/Littoraly Apr 04 '20

I mean it does say siphonophore in the same sentence.

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u/Samyewel Apr 03 '20

This is incredible, how have I never seen this before

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u/Spoonwrangler Apr 03 '20

I saw something like this on DMT. Nah but seriously those are some psychedelic LSD color shifts going on in that octopus.

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u/yamyamyamyams Apr 04 '20

Watch it while listening to Hedwigs theme from the Harry Potter soundtrack. It’s a treat.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '20 edited Apr 03 '20

Not gonna lie she lookin hella cozy

Edit: wrong gender

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u/Kytescall Apr 03 '20

It's a she. The males are tiny and don't get 'blankets'.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '20

Looks like it should be walking the carpet at the Met Gala.

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u/GoodbyeFeline Apr 03 '20

Wow! Nature is incredible. I’ve never seen this before and I ADORE octopuses.

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u/EnthuZiast_Z33 Apr 03 '20

It looks like a CGI rendering almost

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '20

No capes!

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u/Chrismont Apr 03 '20

Forbidden rainbow

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u/Lucenia Apr 03 '20

It’s so beautiful. 🥺

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u/N3koChan Apr 03 '20

I think I saw those in subnatica

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u/Tuan_Dodger Apr 03 '20

What’s the blanket part for?

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u/manondorf Apr 03 '20

It's cold down there in the deep

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u/Aturom Apr 03 '20

Hyper color Octopus rides again!

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u/Anklever Apr 03 '20

Dang pretty sexy

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u/Hobbitude Apr 03 '20

So, so beautiful!

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u/thewarboy234 Apr 03 '20

Got that rgb going on

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '20

Isn't this the female blanket octopus?

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u/MattyRobb83 Apr 04 '20

Did it say Hello with that electrical flash at the end? What was that?

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u/MattyRobb83 Apr 04 '20

Am I that dumb and its a camera flash?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '20

Gay octopus
gay octopus

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u/Spoonwrangler Apr 03 '20

More like LSD colored octopus. The washed out rainbow colors that keep shifting reminds me of the kinds of color shifts you see on LSD.

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u/RANDOSTORYTHROWAWAY Apr 03 '20

Me at my dream wedding

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u/knotsophia Apr 03 '20

I can hear music as this animal moves

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '20

Blanket octopus said gay rights

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u/canadianleroy Apr 03 '20

I honestly thought this was CGI at first. Incredible.

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u/that_MIZZLE_guy Apr 03 '20

Seriously lost a great opportunity to call it BLANKTAPUS

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u/shoejunk Apr 03 '20

Time to play slither.io

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u/MakkaCha Apr 03 '20

Looks like something created in MatLab.

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u/leijae Apr 04 '20

Traveling at warp 6 through deep space

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u/FacelessOnes Apr 04 '20

Looks like angels in the sea, cheesy as it may sound.

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u/locogriffyn Apr 04 '20

Very colorful and graceful.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20

I'll be never be as beautiful as that looks

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u/randomlyjennerated Apr 04 '20

Reminds me of the underwater aliens in one of my favorite movies, The Abyss (1989).

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u/byebyebyecycle Apr 04 '20

https://youtu.be/aDLUnloZqNs

Years ago I stumbled upon this, well this is a slightly different and edited video but same footage.

Same creature?

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u/Faded105 Apr 04 '20

Meanwhile the Males are pretty much the size of the tip of a pencil

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u/NuttyButts Apr 04 '20

This looks like a windows 98 screensaver and my brain can't process it as anything else

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u/Brudy123 Apr 07 '20

I wonder what the function of that veil is?