Octopuses are considered to be one of the most intelligent marine creatures. Their most prominent ability is how they can blend in with the environment to either catch prey or hide from predators.
Recently, a video of an octopus changing colours went crazy viral and left people wondering how something like this was even possible.
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Captioned as ¡®This is how octopuses use camouflage in the wild,¡¯ the video shows an octopus moving about near the sea bed and then blending in with its surroundings by changing its colours.?
In the beginning, the octopus is grey, which soon changes to black-brown and by the end of the video, the eight-limbed creature decided to blend its colour and texture with that of the sea bed.?
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As expected, the video has gone viral with over 9.2 million views, 198.3k likes and people were left amazed by the octopus¡¯ ability to camouflage itself.?
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Back in September, another video of an octopus changing colours while sleeping went viral on social media.?
A marine biologist amusingly narrated - how an octopus changes colours in sleep - in this clip from PBS¡¯s 'Octopus: Making Contact'.
David Scheel of Alaska Pacific University explains the colour changes of a sleeping octopus named Heidi. At the start of the clip, the napping octopus was a pearly-white colour. But as it sleeps dark patterns appear and constantly keep shifting.?
Nature offers something new everyday!