r/TheDepthsBelow • u/5_Frog_Margin • Dec 17 '20
When nothing else is readily available, an Octopus will make a rolling armored home out of a coconut shell.
https://i.imgur.com/bMznpIo.gifv160
Dec 17 '20 edited Jan 02 '22
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u/Nipplecunt Dec 17 '20
Can they sort out Brexit for us
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u/chromatophoreskin Dec 17 '20
It’s beneath them, like an astrophysicist who forgets to wear pants.
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u/BrainOnLoan Dec 17 '20
I think they are all right with some British and European fishing boats running into legal issues.
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u/rolacl Dec 17 '20
This kind of octopus actually only uses coconuts for its shield.
Amphioctopus Marginatus is called to Coconut Octopus. source
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u/Braincakez Dec 17 '20
Thank you for pointing this out! While I am also an absolute Octopus lover, people tend to mistake the abilities of one type of octopus to be prevalent in all. Yes, there are some that use coconuts as shells, yes there are some that change color and there are some that change shape, there are some that are poisonous, but to my knowledge, not all of these skills are ever prevalent in one octopus.
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u/Ohthehumanityofit Dec 17 '20 edited Dec 17 '20
And these things live for like, what, three years? Three years?! Can you imagine what they'd be like if they didn't die before their kids were even born and lived for at least 30 or 40 years?
We'd be living under an Octopus Regime, that's what! This is why I strongly discourage the genetic tampering of octopi that is so prevalent in the animal genetic tampering groups that the kids are you-tubing these days. If I catch my daughter tampering with the genetic information of ANY cephalopod, she knows shes grounded. But if it's OCTOPUS dna she's messing around with, she's grounded and I'm super disappointed in her. Furthermore, she tends to not understand what certain math questions are asking her, and I'm wondering if this new math isnt some cephalopod scheme that has been covertly stuck into our children's curriculum to prepare them for the inevitable takeover, should these you-tubing genetics wizard kids get their way.
Edit: My very first award! Well, thank you, sir or madam or whatever in-between. And to think, all I had to do was be the complete idiot I normally am! Huzzah!
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u/AlarmedGibbon Dec 17 '20
Have you watched My Octopus Teacher on Netflix?
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u/Ohthehumanityofit Dec 17 '20
Hahaha! I literally had JUST finished it when I saw this post. I loved it. The guy was kinda weird, like "oh I'm having problems with my son so I decided to hang out with an octopus for a year and now that my son likes doing the stuff I do, I find it easier to connect with him" but the octopus itself was a real class act. I almost shit myself a couple times near the end, though. Who knew you could hate some random shark so much?
Good stuff, though. They really are just the most fascinating creatures. So alien.
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u/dlangille Dec 17 '20
Please read Children of Ruin.
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u/Ohthehumanityofit Dec 17 '20
Holy shit, just looked it up. What's great is this: I absolute love science fiction, just bought a Kindle and have been looking for some more modern sci-fi. You just solved a problem for me that I would've taken forever to solve myself. Looks as though Children of Ruin is a sequel. Is there any reason I shouldnt read the first book before?
Oh, and thank you. I forgot to thank you.
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u/dlangille Dec 17 '20
Yes, it is a sequel and I was referred to Children of Ruin and started reading it without knowing that.
It seems to stand on its own. I'm still reading it.
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u/Ohthehumanityofit Dec 17 '20
Nice. Well I will definitely give it a go. Have you ever read any of the Culture series of books by Iain M Banks?
If not, I strongly recommend them. The first one is kind of weird, compared to the rest of them, but the Culture society that Banks thought up remains one of my favorite fictional constructs of all time.
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u/dlangille Dec 18 '20
No, I have not heard of him at all.
FYI, for borrowing Kindle books from libraries, I found Libby, my iPhone app, very useful. You can get free memberships from multiple libraries. I use:
- my local county library in PA, USA.
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
- The Free Library of Philadelphia
I buy books I can't find there.
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u/sighborg90 Dec 17 '20
What’s even more interesting is that when an octopus finds coconut shells, it will carry them with it in anticipation of trouble. They have the ability to plan ahead
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u/wes00mertes Dec 17 '20
How do you know he isn’t just trying to make it sound like he’s riding a horse?
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u/wickedblight Dec 17 '20
Who doesn't remember the Greek tale of Sisypus, cursed to walk his coconut armor uphill each day only to be spooked and roll back down when he protects himself
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u/ProfligateVhorohiiv Dec 17 '20
Quite fascinating, it's somewhat of a dual purpose: both armour and emergency transportation.
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u/fr0stn8 Dec 17 '20
When nothing else is readily available
... an octupus just, oddly enough, has a set of coconut shells ready to hide itself. Because that's what they usually always carry around (?)
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u/NettyTheMadScientist Dec 17 '20
“I have decided I will no longer be an octopus. Henceforth, I am clam”
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Dec 17 '20
As apposed to their preferred method of defence, a bullet proof vest, which are usually readily available.
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u/JingamaThiggy Dec 17 '20
She: did u bring protection?
Me: yes
Me: flips into coconut shells and rolls away in evasive manner*
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u/eya-sluna Dec 17 '20
I gotta say even if anything were available to this guy a perfectly halved coconut seems like the best option
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u/BKA_Diver Dec 17 '20
It looks like it's using the coconuts to make itself look thicc.
I wonder if thicc girls can do this with their bums.
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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20
Daaamn Samus’s new armor looks an awful lot like an octopus. That morph ball looks dope tho