Octopus Intelligence - Aliens of the Deep - Science Channel U.S.

[Cyndrakkos]

Edelman's eyes look like the octopus' eyes. He shouldn't squint so much; that changes the way his rods and cones align in order to see. He'll need the most dementedly complex eye surgery to fix that kind of compression 30 or so years from now.

[konraddobson]

fascinating creatures.

[Drakerip]

An alien is an unknown organism; and I'm pretty sure octopi are known to humanity. Retards saying octopi are aliens don't know what they're stating.

[MrProgrampro]

@Drakerip Alien as a general term means something foreign or strange. Alien as a colloquial term refers to the weird life we could possibly find outside our planet. TECHNICALLY these things aren't biological "aliens" (duh), but do not confuse dictionary definitions with figurative language.

[cribeirovideos]

Spanish version is avaible on Youtube; French version on Dailymotion; I can´t find english version on internet. Thkx.

[jabbernaut52733]

is this part of a full episode? if so where can I find the full version?

[MrSuperpoder]

Nice intro

[mithilag]

They're ABOUT to take a leap in evolution? Um, no. We've just been slow to understand their incredible intelligence.

How egotistic of human beings to believe we are so superior and great. We've been the first animals to truly manipulate nature... I'm not so sure that's true intelligence with how we're running it.

[trentmuch1]

I REALLY don't like this BS about Octopuses being "alien".

They live on Earth, therefore they are terrestrial, therefore fuck off with all this mystical other-worldly crap.

[soulsaremine1]

those are not aliens, they are the beautyful creations or god

i dont like this video

[ohjackybee]

I got chills.

[skyefox]

Nobody knows if there is a God, or not. We're stupid human beings who can barely grasp the functions of the world around us. If you say you know, you're spouting goofy talk.

[BasshuterZ]

The THING!

[9GodsMusic]

biologists are discovering weirder and weirder stuff the deeper they go into the ocean... octopi are just a start. makes me shudder a bit. still cool though.

[Moodygurly]

I seriously don't know why people are debating about religions, God(s), and evolution. I mean really people, this video is about how cool and awesome an octopus can be. If your gonna fight with words, fight on a video about the actual topic. Or just dont fight at all. Personally I'd really like to debate on whether human beings are the actual aliens on this wild and confusing planet. Anyways this was a cool video. Now I'm off to live in the real world.

[sirkmap]

@Moodygurly

nicely said fellow youtuber.

[cribeirovideos]

@Moodygurly That´s right, this is just an entertainament documentary playing with an future hyp. That´s all. BTW, What do u mean when u say "real" world? Pls read "The grand design", by Stephen Hawking… R u sure reality is how it looks?... Food for thought.

[koftaboy]

i f ur a diver and u look from far can they hurt you for no reason??

[cribeirovideos]

@koftaboy Ops… I thing in the same way your neighbour can do… :) U can dive man, don´t worry for angry octopus...

[MrAbehonest]

It can open a jar!!!! I can barely open one myself. This is one smart octopus.

[TomTheDiamondMLP]

>Comes to video to watch a video on an octopus.

>Sees religious in comments. And by debate I mean everyone insulting each other.

:/

[corncrusher21]

Crab-"FML"

[sodaxcandy08]

theyre food! not friends! FAG

[Ivanchuckk]

"an intelligence nearly identical to our own" ...????? um they lost me on that one.

"the octopus seems to be using cognitive reason to solve this problem.... thinking, if the crab got in there, there must be a way to get it out"

.... no, it was probably just hungry and wanted some food so it tried to get at the crab. What animal wouldn't attempt to get into a jar of food if it was presented to them? That has nothing to do with cognitive reason.

[Quasarcool]

@Ivanchuckk You miss the point of it unscrewing the lid. Not many animals would be able to figure that out.

[JaytheOstrich]

@Ivanchuckk But consider.. it can't see the glass. It can't smell the crab. It knows something is stopping it from reaching the crab, it sees that part of it (the lid) is visible. I works on the lid and discovers it twists. When it twists, it makes sure it's body covers the mouth of the jar so the crab won't escape.

Other animals would never figure out what a 'lid' is, much less have the ability to actually untwist it.

[Ivanchuckk]

@JaytheOstrich Most animals have paws or hooves and wouldn't be able to untwist it. Octopuses naturally investigate things with their tenticles and probably discovered half accidently that the lids twists off.

Also... it can see the glass, in fact, octopuses have excellent sight.

If opening a jar is the apex of octopus intelligence than they do not "harbor an intelligence almost identicle to our own". I mean, i know they are very smart, but lets not overstate the case.

[JaytheOstrich]

@Ivanchuckk I believe that glass is pretty much invisible underwater. And yes, I did already mention the 'ability' to untwist it, which covers physical ability. I am aware a horse can't untwist a jar.

[MrSyak1989]

God's creation

[cribeirovideos]

@MrSyak1989 I don´t think so. Biology has explained the origin and evolution of all the living and also extinct species, and about the origin of life itself, two centuries ago, without the help of any kind of God. Remember Darwin?

[hacker54189]

@cribeirovideos dont push your bullshit beliefs on us christian, we obviosuly dont care what you and your "smart" scientist think.

[cribeirovideos]

@hacker54189 Try to be polite: we "smart scientist" -as you said- don´t want to have any fight with you (Believers?), but discuss different points of view, using for that the most powerful weapon: the evidence. So you don´t need to offend any one, just use evidences (if you have it). Thank you.

[gaenues26]

@cribeirovideos you should save your breathe on those fanatics cribeirovideos they will never believe nothing but there imaginary master of all creations

[cribeirovideos]

@gaenues26 Unfortunately I hope you´re right, but I think we still can recommend some books that "may" change the point of view of some "creationists" or "believers" :) …too much x-files, yep. Just using real evidences better than faith, of course. "Evolution" of Richard Dawkings it is a good choice to start with.

[CoreyRidesUnited]

@hacker54189 ahh let sciencetists believe what they wanna believe everything scientifically. i believe were all gods children, even the athiests but science is still power.

[LanfeustDeGlinin]

@hacker54189 Religion = intolerance. That's what you're showing us. I'm pretty sure they don't teach you this in your church...

[Assassinoxable]

@hacker54189 Calm down, Christian. :)

[Surefire3333]

@cribeirovideos I believe go put us here, in molecular form.

[endrake2]

@cribeirovideos not really.

[Assassinoxable]

@cribeirovideos I agree bro, all agree.

[NamelessSolider]

@cribeirovideos So explain to me this, evolution. When somthing isint working right for a species, it just desides, "hey, let me grow 6 extra legs. Then, in another hundered years, my great grand childern will breath underwater." Explain that to me. I belive in science to a certain point.

[cribeirovideos]

@NamelessSolider Try to read "Evolution" of Richard Dawkins. I hope it will solve most of your questions. And to the other ones faqs (I mean, about religions, believers and esoteric stuff), I am sure "The God Delusion", from the same author, will help you. Thanks.

[NamelessSolider]

@cribeirovideos ive already read the God delusion, and why cant you answer my question?

[cribeirovideos]

@NamelessSolider It doesn´t work in the way you say. And also it is no possible at all trying to explain such a quite complex theory (yes, theory not law: read the book to know why) using a "youtube comments" box… So, I think you can find a nice and easy way to try to understand how evolution works just reading "Evolution" (R. Dawkins), although I´m sure it will not change the creationist point of view of most "believers", cause they don´t need evidences, but faith is enough… Thanks.

[monsterlwd]

@cribeirovideos Darwinism is just a "THEORY" scientist themselves say so too. i respect your opinion but i believe we were created or as you call us "believers". biology has only explained how it works, not the transition to new species. there is no evidence in history were a animal has shown even a minor part of evolution not even inside its body.

[Manaheeissweet]

@cribeirovideos I think you ay want to do a little bit ore studying before you begin to assume Darwin of any great acheivment that is any more than "it totaly looks like.com"

[DarkDreamer126]

@MrSyak1989 God is bullshit k? :) bye, have fun praying to an invisible being and basially acting like someone with Schizophrenia

[DR000]

@MrSyak1989

No, God is not required to explain the diversity of life.

[troykillah]

Nooooooo Mr.Krabs=P

[Conservative4]

I want to see the rest of whatever this is...

[senorcartgadge]

@Conservative4 I think it was just a little informative thing, no bigger documentary, too bad ,though

[Conservative4]

@senorcartgadge first, I find your name humorous. Do you stand behind people in line and munch loudly on candy bars?

Second, it looks like an intro scene, though, doesn't it?

[cribeirovideos]

To TheFallenWind: Do you know the meaning of "alien" -or any other word- in a metaphoric sense? That is it. Quite simple ;)

[TehFallenWind]

Do these people even know what alien means?

[cribeirovideos]

Look imageekusa, WordlofFood is not a stupid at all. S/He´s just trying to explain her/his point of view. It is her/his right, although I am agree with you. First of all, WorldofFood should watch the entire documentary, that´s right. Tkx.

[iamgeekusa]

"WorldofFood's" comment is kinda stupid. The Term Alien does not automatically refer to life from another planet. Its original definition is to imply a strangeness or otherness. Much like, foreign. Jesus guys, stop watching so much x-files and use some common sense you illiterate idiots

[vilane421]

We know more about space than we do about the ocean. That being said we really don't know much about space if we only study with our eyes and not our minds. Cephalopods are my favorite kind of species. I wonder if they are next in line to acquire "consciousness".

[EatingSnickers]

So, with all of the "knowledge" I've gotten from these comments and this video, Octopi will waltz up on dry land and open all of our jars???

[cspower12]

Octopi are totally not aliens!

[TheCatsLastWord]

So fawking AWESOME!

[Erakk562]

If they somehow are able to breathe on land, we're fucked.

[EgAnimatiOn]

@Erakk562 Makes no sense. Stop stealing comments from other video's...fail

[Erakk562]

@EgAnimatiOn I said "if" not, "they will." This was a fascinating video that shows how intelligent these animals can be, or how little we know about them. When I wrote that, it was an idea I had in my head, so I decided to comment and share an idea.

Are you say that I'm not allowed to express my opinion? That's some Nazi shit buddy...

[me700gnomes]

Alien means foreign, unfamiliar, or strange. I would say that alien is a great word for these animals.

[MrMeched]

arnt they inside the darlek suit?

[Zee96969696]

forget monkey taking over the earth, forget robots taking over the earth, and forget octopuses taking over the earth, a comet will come and wipe us all out, global warming is going to change this planet into a planet like venus, we will all be extinct unless we spread out into space, but even if we do, it's not going to be us, it is going to be our grand grand children, and afer many generationd they will evolve into other weird creatures. life is weird and crazy and cruel and sometimes good

[WorldofFood]

Octopi aren't really alien at all actually. They are descendant of cephalopods, which were here LONG before we were. I think it is stupid how this video keeps trying to play that up. Octopi are cool, no doubt about that, but this video's message kinda sucks.

[cribeirovideos]

@WorldofFood :? ... I´m afraid you should watch the entire documentary and only after do it, think about it and publish your own opinion. Consider you are just watching a teaser, obviously not enough to know whats goin´ on into the deep of the film. We´ll be waiting for your comments. It will be very apreciated, of course :)

[itsraininglool]

@cribeirovideos BITCH ARE YOU TELLING ME THESE THINGS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE? FUCK, I DON'T THINK SO!

[Daemonicfoxx]

@WorldofFood ermmm you do know that the word Alien has several definitions beyond the most common one people usually attach to it.

Octopi would fit under one definition of Alien which is to be from a different or strange place to ourselves.

[grimm61111]

@WorldofFood im pretty sure we're the aliens not the octopus eh?

[Nameless742]

@WorldofFood He is using the term Alien in a different sense. He's using it in the sense that it is something that is strange and something totally unusual to Earth rather than the modern and more popular use meaning from another planet. There are many features of the Octupi that are quite unique to the Earth.

You are right though. He should describe it as alien, not AN alien.

[Wrenchfayce]

@WorldofFood aren't cephalopods the sub-class of species to which octopi, squids, cuttlefish, etc, all belong? I don't quite get what you mean when you're saying octopi are descendants of themselves, i.e. they descended from what they currently are?

[RasecVonWizzlbang]

@Wrenchfayce

Actually it's a class under the phylum mollusca. They're descended from clams and snails, interestingly.

[Wrenchfayce]

@RasecVonWizzlbang Aye, I did say cephalopods are a sub-class (a sub-class to the phylum mollusca, though I didn't say this for brevities sake), but I still don't get why you're saying that octopi are descended from cephalopods... It's like saying cats are descended from felines, when they are felines.

[RasecVonWizzlbang]

@Wrenchfayce

I didn't say that, the other guy did.

[Wrenchfayce]

@RasecVonWizzlbang Oh right, sorry, that was WorldofFood who said it. I just hit reply without checking the names and assumed it was him replying to me since I'd commented initally on his statement. My bad sorry.

[hanaryukoku]

@WorldofFood They weren't really referring to Octopi as our definition of Aliens...the science fiction ET image we have in our minds. They simply meant the complexity of the Octopi is alien to us.

[thefutureispeace]

@WorldofFood oh really? octopi aren't aliens? we obviously know that, the point is that they are strange looking and hence "alien" to us

[greekpanther1]

@WorldofFood id think you would find its "octopuses"....

[XxxTenebraexxX]

@WorldofFood They are using the term alien figuratively to express how drastically different they are from most everything we have upon the planet, not to say that they're an extraterrestrial entity. We use alien towards illegal immigrants here in America for that very same reasoning...they're not of our immediate location, they are alien.

[Anacondas101]

@WorldofFood yeah if anything we are the aliens

[BoQuan22]

@WorldofFood its octopuses

[circusgothicaTV]

@BoQuan22 actually, no. It is octopi. Much like how the word cactus becomes 'cacti' when made plural.

[Kemmetmau]

@circusgothicaTV Octopus comes from the Greek octo (meaning eight) and pus (meaning foot), whereas the -i pluralization is Latin. My professors don't all agree on this entirely, but the general consensus seems to be that "octopuses" is the correct plural.

-a recent graduate with a Bachelor's in Marine Bio

[Kemmetmau]

@circusgothicaTV Not that it's a huge deal if you say "octopi" instead. That version's become common enough now that it's accepted by most people too.

[IDontWantYourCereal]

hey look! yet another stupid "damn nature you scary!" comment with the most thumbs up. why are people so stupid and always thumb up the same shit? whatever. octopi are fucking insane.

[ttrreeyyyy1]

Ok, so it's "Aliens of the Deep Sea." NOT, Aliens of the Deep.

[Helge129]

@CarrotsforBananas No, it's actually the Spanish. They have squid in pretty much every other recipe, lol.

[Belphegor83]

don't worry about octopus, spaniards are eating all of them!!

[trentmuch1]

Octopuses are actually stupid.

I lost a civil lawsuit when a Giant Pacific contradicted me on the witness stand. We'd rehearsed his testimony! Nothing should have gone wrong!

...The jurors were still wiping ink off their suits when they found me guilty :S.

A bad day. Especially or the Octopus. I had gumbo. He was in it.

[THEELVISAQP]

A lot of intelligent octopuswill dominate the world promptly

[REALCougarsRmales]

pretty soon they will evolve to the point where we will call them illegal aliens.

[XxCaptThunderpantsxX]

Damn nature, you scary!

[dhaddox]

This was an interesting show except they seemed to think that the plural of octopus is octopi.

[X33vince]

@dhaddox

Well, it's a latin word ( hence the ending in ''us'' ) so it has a plural of its own. Us > i. Um > a. Like the media, plural of medium.

[dhaddox]

@X33vince Correction, it comes from Greek oktopous: "okto" eight "pous" foot. So the correct pluralization is octopodes.

[X33vince]

@dhaddox Like Hercules comes from Herakles, Zeus from Dios, and most latin words from greek words. They nevertheless exist. ^^

[dhaddox]

@X33vince I agree Latin exists, however there is no Latin word "octopus". The Latin word for octopus is polypus.

[AlternativeBaroque]

Thanks to your misrepresenting the title of this series I just wasted an hour and a half watching some self-important tripe by James fucking Cameron. Fuck you, asshole.

[sadeviant]

The title of the show is "Deep Sea Aliens". "Aliens of the Deep" is a Cameron directed IMAX hunk of shit that will rape and murder any interest you had in science.

[dopafeind1]

This is why I stopped eating octopus.

[Herbstgespenst]

aw i want one, and call him george!

[wollin20]

Thanks. Octopus are amazing!