Octopus Mimics Flounder

[12TabulaRasa12]

"moving and behaving like a flounder" ---> interesting! very smart!

[DivinoTV]

Sorry Rog: we read your Biol. Bulletin paper on this observation in our Marine Bio. Seminar & have rejected your hypothesis on your behalf. You have no mechanistic evidence of mimicry in the single individual you observed. It is far more likely that this stealthy behavior allows the octopus to stalk prey better than by 'backwards swimming.'

[sufferingminotaur]

wow. some of the stuff they mimic seems rather odd than functional. could this partly be recreational behaviour?

[MegaNinja16]

the mimic octopus never looses at charades

[martinrking]

should've shown a flounder so I could see what you were talking about, instead you just telling me

[TheOverload13]

this shits intense

[ModderRhu87]

why mimic a flounder? flounders are tasty :P

[bigfoot321]

''this small octopus has been around for thousands of year these are the great squid's spys'' 0_o ```wtf are you talking about} o_0```idk}

[stiimuli]

im sorry, that doesnt look like any flounder I've seen O_o

[Aximilli1000]

@stiimuli

But it looks like a flounder the fish have seen.

[victorchb]

...and soon it will evolve into human lol

[twilight13]

mimic octopus are my favorite sea creatures <3 ^__^

[cherrybelly999]

Octopounder

[HiRUnknown]

COOL!

[slaw]

predators also attack from behind most the time... so disguising its self as a flounder will (hopefully) only result in the lose of a tentacle...thats awesome

[geldaine]

I think its interesting.

[Exestenz]

octopi are gonna be the next sentient beings?

japanese mangas were right!

[adamb0000]

ツ

[Multimentalisti]

Omg thats an smart animal :I)

[Addamondes]

KILL IT BEFORE OTHERS TRY

[falconpaaaunch]

@senecawench7382  wtf??

??

[brotherjupiter]

As young and dumb youths comercial diving for sea cucumbers in BC we used to catch lots of octopus.

Someone put a knife in the head of one in the trough one day trying to kill it but the octopus kept pulling the knife out of it's head holding it awhile and dropping it.

We were all amazed and I think everyone felt pretty bad for the thing and respected their intelligence a he'll of a lot more after that

[edwardocortez]

haha people are all saying " big deal" this is EXACTLY what the title says it is.

[salomeruhsam]

oh wow.

an octupos that thinks its a flounder.

thats just sooooooo interesting. NOT.

ya know what, my cat thinks hes a dog so this doesnt suprise me much at all.

[05naruto05]

he doesnt think he is a flounder...he acts like a flounder for self defense...theres a big difference in acting and thinking like one

[martha420may]

can your cat make itself look like a dog? that would be impressive.

[ereeves116]

you aren't very bright are you?

[salomeruhsam]

i'm sorry, but exactly WHO isnt very bright here?!?!?

well, it sure as hell isnt me.

there are others on this thread who are stupider than me and coincidentally you chose ME.

well, i'm honored but your the one who isnt very bright in this situation.

[mirza007agent]

what are flounders ??

[joeprice010]

...interesting...

[MylesRodgers]

This is not evolution.

It's mimicking a flounder, that is it.

[hassiand]

@MylesRodgers

actualy it is, well atleast natural selection.

[WBMGMproductions]

any1 notice their like spiders except in water

[shaolindreams]

clever lil suckers

[nadiaboo1]

@WBMGMproductions nohhh, REALLY!!

[jackybuzz]

evolution?

[nadiaboo1]

@jackybuzz HMMMM, I wonder...Of course it is!

[jorge10928]

stupid humans

[nadiaboo1]

@jorge10928 hahaha i concur, stupid us, and we think were the smartest species on earth, yeah right!

[jmikejapan]

They should call it the Rich Little octopus,since it can mimic a flounder! AHAAHAHAHAHHA! Where me props at? Come on, anyone? I know I'm lame, but at least I'm having fun with it!

[krrrruptidsoless]

Maybe it is making fun of flounders. Sending out fish signals that there are flounders in the area. When the flounders are eaten it hides in its little cubby hole and laughs at the flounders being eaten. It is like the guy that stands at the back of the crowd and yells at whoever is being taunted but the guy being taunted can't see them. Or maybe it is doing its own flounder documentary and is swimming like a flounder for the upcoming interview. A swam a mile in your form kind of thing.

[julzeatspu]

this just goes to show that evolution is fo real :D

[ymonkey333]

kill it!!! they are evolutating!!!!

[jmikejapan]

Nice one!

[nadiaboo1]

@ymonkey333 lol evolutating? It's that similar to ovulating?  lmao.

[twofitiles]

flounders prey on the octopi there so maybe by disguising itself as a flounder, the octopus can fool the flounders?

[akatsukigirl02]

That's so cool! I really think people underestimate how smart animals are sometimes.

[gmethry18]

Not smart, just instinct. Still, props to the animals.

[akatsukigirl02]

No, smart. Instinct is something innate. This is adaptation, meaning it learned to do this. That is smart. :)

[AkatsukiMurderer]

creepy octopus, great copy cat adaptation though

[cookielover1213]

octopi are fucking smart

[st8tsman]

octopi is the plural for octupus

[05naruto05]

octopi octopuses and octopodes are valid collective terms for it

[silverstarz1000]

I have seen this before. Its called a Mimic Octopus believe it or not it can mimic several types of sea-life such as sea snakes, flounder, lion fish etc.

[mlkeysfullofshit]

what are you a mermaid or something?

[silverstarz1000]

lol I just have gone to a marine life camp for 6 years x]

[Acheronian23]

I know, this thing is absolutely amazing!  It mimics everything around it, even coral!! LMAO! I love it!

[ForceOfWizardry]

Wait until octupus finally evolve to be land creatures. They will kick humans ass!!

[mlkeysfullofshit]

eww no i dont wanne be sucked

[elliott421]

Mimic Octopuses are some of the coolest octopuses around. Why change colors like other octopuses when you could just mimic the local fauna.

[geebizzle38]

Very nice, March 21st can't come soon enough!!!!

[Nintendostar123]

cute little thing

[kingnahum17]

Strange. I've never seen them do that...

[centurionl]

damn, that's amazing. octopuses will conquer the world one day

[Tooopper]

@centurionl

please don't say octopuses, it sounds wierd

i'm not the guy to make fun of somebodies online typing since, it isn't really important to spell check

but when its octopuses, i doubt anybody can take you seriously

octopi should be a better word

[05naruto05]

octopuses is a valid collective noun for it...its the most common form but octopi and octopodes are also valid...

[Tooopper]

@05naruto05

i get that but its just that

octopuses sounds wrong to me

lol

[05naruto05]

oh..i guess i was confused...you talked about spell check so i thought u really believe it was a mistake...but octopi does sound better than octopuses

[Tooopper]

@05naruto05

it depends on you though

[centurionl]

@Tooopper im sorry for my sins lol but sorry i didnt knwow it was octopi, i gues anything that would be spelled at the end with 'uses' it's really with an i like cacti

[Tooopper]

@centurionl

its not that is wrong, i think octopuses can be used as a collective noun for it, its just that for some reason it sounds, "wrong" you know, wrong

[Bengbusen]

Coool

[appleyeoman]

I think that they are some of the most interesting creatures of the sea

[Oyin26]

awesome

[maydayfire]

not new:

/watch?v=BT5TARRe_RY&feature=r­elated

[UnnamedAirsoft]

Thats a different octopus than the one in this video

[PolishGuy89]

This is pretty damn cool!

[XxMorgueofDeathXx]

wow they are very adaptive

[mkaatr]

interesting.

[annie46664]

AWESOME! One of my favourite sea creatures ~ so extremely intelligent & by far more intelligent than some of the delinquents & idiots who've commented below.

~South Africa~

[yourstrulyaz]

he must be the free thinker of the group =) "I am going be a flounder and you can't stop me!"

[blake1405]

@PillowDood And you're a stupid fuck.

[Drahmull]

sad but true

[VonJoakim]

RWJ is ftw xD! Fake and Gay!

[FreemanBG]

@VonJoakim what is so fantastic about him?

[newjerseydevilfan30]

fuck u he's terrible

[p3erf80g4949]

tadpole

[sparton1199]

next thing you know octapuses will have heatbeat sencores and silenced weapons

[Zeventwo]

you play too much MW2

[rggfgjerjh]

1.its octopi 2.its sensor

[Uberubert99]

I like these videos. There is something very calming about them

[BoeGraa]

Squidward

[peepeevagi]

It doesn't matter how hard you try to hide Mr squid, we WILL find your weapons of mass obstruction.

[maxplaying]

nada nuevo

[jihadpizza]

awesome!!

[rubintax]

cool!

[adamb0000]

epic octopus "/

[kattejuice]

lol cute

[lwkleijn]

Elite fucking octopus!

[1234567loading]

awful quality

[crazziii]

That's because youtube takes some time to upload the full quality of the video.

[MrSeriues]

so cute *_*

[AngeloProduction]

octoflounder.mov

[KaunisRoheline]

lol I was thinking to put the same

octoflounder.mov

[qviotky]

nop

[dyingangelo]

LAST!