Watch: Octopus Changes Colours & Camouflages Itself And People Are Freaking Out
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.
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.
Watch the video here:
This is how octopuses use camouflage in the wild pic.twitter.com/csAIOcSBix
¡ª Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) November 13, 2019
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.
1.
The ocean is a scary place. Imaging going for a splash and then seeing that?
¡ª Tazer (@tazerofficial) November 14, 2019
2.
Nature is so full of mind boggling wonders. Too bad the humans are poisoning the ecological system.
¡ª sc (@sc71801815) November 13, 2019
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Why we couldn¡¯t get camouflage? We got overthinking and civil conflict instead smh
¡ª J'sar (@Jsar) November 16, 2019
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Literally the master of disguise pic.twitter.com/LBUfhTYt3M
¡ª Autumn Jogger? (@ISupremeNash) November 17, 2019
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Incredible it can move without really using its testicles
¡ª ???SamTheDuckFan??? (@Ducks1stLife2nd) November 17, 2019
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octopi are not actual sea creatures. there¡¯s no way they¡¯re of this planet...
¡ª ?delightfully sinister? (@cHr1sSyNuLl) November 17, 2019
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I love how it changed to black before retransitioning. As if that was it's comfortable colour
¡ª Doug (@doug3rd) November 13, 201
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!
