Tricked octopus

[manofthehour91]

this is actually quite extraordinary considering most creatures don't recognise images on a screen.

[Xonx68]

It's funny how the octopus thinks that the images on the screen are real threats/prey. It's even more funny how many idiots watching youtube think that the people that they subscribe to on the screen are actually their best friends, HAHAHAHAHA!

[WouldbeSage]

@Soler0 Good thing there are intelligent, free-willed people like you to sit around and gripe on the internet.

[intheshitter]

Im not suprised. I was watching a doco on snakes once and my cat was glued to the TV. She was trying to figure out how to get inside the TV to get the snakes lol.

[ReverendSyn]

0:19 *PLONK*

pwnt.

[dark1secret]

Even humans can be tricked in those condittions , let aside octopuses.

[PennyDreadfuI]

What an amazing discovery! We can now implement this technology to trick animals all over the world... Oh wait, hunters have been fooling prey animals with decoys for 100,000 years. Nevermind.

[defect530]

It's probably an lcd tv : /

[LouisianaGatorGirl]

These "scientists" should get a life and release that octopus back in the wild.

[jarvis15]

We've successfully tricked an octopus... now what? –_–

[panterafist]

@jarvis15

yay?!

[kaminarigaston]

Show him some octo-porn. Show him some octo-pussey.

[DietDrMario]

maybe this octopus is retarded?

[Hy22n]

@DietDrMario

I think this octopussy has downs

[ubersteigen]

...So...What the hell was the point of this?

..Where the scientists in the lab all high that day?

[anbruce99]

@ubersteigen lol! high all day, everyday. they need inspiration

[nashixe]

@ubersteigen The point of this, is that octopuses have very very good vision. So far, none of our television screens have been able to fool octopuses because they see at a higher resolution than the screen itself. This holds opportunities for making better display technology, as well as understand what makes vision better. I am sure you can see the uses to humanity.

[greenheadjoe]

So that is a TV watching cephalopod.

Must be some really interesting mental processes undergone in its myelinless invertebrate brain.

[goodvideocontent]

Is it legal?

[serialkiller2476]

fake

[tolerancija]

pooor Octopussy... :)

[hbgoose]

and...?

[littlestworkshop]

And it may be the last time?

[Dethomoth]

now i know where my taxes are going

[kutaro13]

You better be feeding octopus later on though, otherwise I and Dr. Zoidberg (the octopus) will be very very Mad :P

[GladiatorShield]

This is garbage and not just from a religious perspective, this is what the nazis tried to do too.where wasting our recourses and taxes (Indirectly),to try and play God by disecting cells from the unborn thats messed up!

[Zormac]

My thought exactly. Maybe this one is just too stupid then :D

[asumazilla]

Yeah it would be really nice to know what is the new thing in this video. Did they just find a stupid Octopus? Maybe he realises if he plays along with the scientists he will get fed as a reward. Or did they improve the video technology or make the octopuses vision less good somehow?

[wolfekeeper]

@asumazilla They used the newer-style liquid crystal video display. Scientists used to use a cathode ray tube for this. Cathode ray tubes flicker, but LCDs don't. Humans can't see the flicker much, but octopus have faster eyes, so they saw the flicker and weren't fooled by the image; cos octopuses don't flicker in real life!

[darkangel2327]

Its okay because if you show that crab to a caveman back in the day he would have done the same thing.

[YuneShik]

"People have been trying for over a decade to get proper behavioural responses from octopuses and other cephalopods using videos,"

[orams1]

these people seriously have no life, i mean cmon what the fuck is the point, you outsmarted an octupus!! give yourself a banana monkey boy

[YuneShik]

"Surprisingly, an octopus that was bold, aggressive and exploratory on one day was just as likely to be shy, submissive and stationary the next. 'This suggests that the gloomy octopus does not have personality.'"

Dumbass, all experiments are done for a reason.

[the12packweb]

@orams1

Look, that scientist is looking at butterfly wing patterns, and he's breeding shitty little butterflies; seriously, what's the point? Oh wait, his work has just developed into a study that has found a way to prevent Rh disease!

[LusciousBrown]

He's fast!

[yetidetective]

i tricked this octopus

because i'm a dick?

no.

FOR SCIENCE!

[ncktbs]

even nature loves HD

[tarohoa]

octopus: GRAHH!! I GOT CRABS!!

[Gearz86]

Ugggh. I don't understand this type of research. Useless.

[vinak963]

you probably shouldn't be commenting on it then.

[Gearz86]

All the more reason to.

[shorutuburetto]

That's ok. Just keep trying to educate yourself. I hope one day you reach an understanding! Good luck!

[jaml311]

more we know about the stuff around us the more we can figure out. quit bitchin

[tradotvis]

this is not science

[shorutuburetto]

Why?

[monkeyology1]

Would this work on a hooker?

[Bartscool1]

o wow we tricked a octopus

[shaolindreams]

i think you should let him watch finding nemo bluray

[monkeyology1]

LOFL

[whytyt]

what a LAME experiment... can someone tell me where and how we can apply such knowledge?

[bluegreenplanet89]

clearly you are not fit to be a scientist.

[DSBrekus]

..that has nothing to do with pure science

[kentrel2]

@whytyt By understanding how octupuses can be tricked you can understand their eyesight and their vision, which leads to a greater understanding of how different kinds of eyes evolved, leading to a greater understanding of how the eye works in animals in general.. If you can't see an application of such knowledge then you should take the Finding Nemo suggestion

[Maverickx89]

@whytyt

its about if they can recognize 3D or not i guess: if they can separate 3D from flat like some (not all) humans do, the may not react to pictures on a flat screen..

[Neylonx]

why does it have to have an application? most of biology is useless if you look at it that way.

sorry for being curious about the world we live in.

[Zuzannaq]

Mhm. It means that octopi recognises images on video screen. Most animals can't.

[waspbr]

@Zuzannaq

it's octopuses, not octopi. It would make sense write it octopi if the world had a Latin origin, however the origin of the word is Greek, hence octopuses

[Zuzannaq]

Ha! It makes sense. But I was taught to use form 'octopi'.

Hm. I wonder what is the proper Greek form, then? :D

[abracadaverous]

I believe the proper Greek form is 'octopods'. Like cephalopods.

[AIWAC]

@waspbr Then let's just go with octopodes.

[TheKryze]

@whytyt Underwater octopus cinemas?

[gocolts1]

So now you are torturing our friends in the sea. :madashell:

[chrisella3112]

Why not just use a fucking mirror :/

[shorutuburetto]

Because that would be something different altogether.

[PickledBeatnik]

octopi please.

[Snotlingfondler]

if i was that octopus i'd be seriously pissed

[Dirtymurder]

A ha fooled you

[radlations]

The impression I got from her saying that this is the first time octopi have been tricked by television is that no octopi in the world have been tricked.

[asumazilla]

All other Octopods have the all seeing eye (no blind spot).

[BigBigBonze]

hmm,... I wonder if the octopus would learn with time, he is being tricked!

[Bfly99]

You idiots who dont understand how scientists think are the same as the people who were probably laughing when Alexander Flemming was studying fungus.

Dont bite the hand that feeds you.

[radlations]

Exactly man. Its like scientists contribute to pretty much all technological advances that people enjoy and people think it just pops out of nowhere from the mass producers.

[CommonPhenomenon]

he got pwned by technology

[lolgoodies]

Does this video comment on the intelligence of the octopus or of the researchers?

[enzo83sr]

see, HD is the way to go if you want to trick your octopus. its a scientific fact.

[shadman1911]

@enzo83sr wait until they put the 3D glasses on them... octopus will flip

[flyboy333]

Hahaha, I was wondering how I could trick my octopus...

[ProtagonistNonTheist]

lmao

[zedzee1982]

OMG...cant stop laughing at this!!!!

[WBBianHugo]

pointlessness or WHAT

[shorutuburetto]

not pointless.

[andrewb58]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL what did the scientists get bored?

"yo I'm pretty tired of trying to find a cure for cancer.... hey lets see if we can trick an octopus LOLOLOLOL!"

[HKragh]

I'm so sick and tried of people talking about how scientists should find a cure for cancer, instead of things like this. Like scientists is like one profession, who deals with everything. Do you think biologists like those who probably did this experiment, has a clue about medicine and cancer?!?! Well, they may have a clue, they are intelligent people. But they for sure can't cure it. Get real, dammit. There are different kinds of scientists!

[Twist9]

I agree with you, however I think you are misrepresenting the argument against which you are ranting. The argument is not that the scientists are being misallocated, but rather that the research funding is being misallocated. For example if all the funding that was put into animal behavior research was instead put in to cancer research we could expect make advances in medical technology and treatment of cancer much more rapidly.

[andrewb58]

HKragh, chill out man, I was joking around... of course there isn't one job called "scientist" and of course not everyone who does scientific research has a medical background. Lighten up. =)

[adulby]

@HKragh ya thats like saying why isnt Lebron James finding a cure for cancer instead of playing basketball....

[03Dmartin]

@HKragh no one understands science : (

[panterafist]

@HKragh

Why don't they become scientists themselves?

Don't like studying, huh? Let other do the job and criticize them when they don't do well

lol

[Kasu1917]

@HKragh What it comes down to is funding. Money gets spent on what the ruling class thinks is best for them, not what's best for society. Thats why, after the revolution, when the resources on the planet are controlled democratically and subordinated to a scientific plan to meet human needs, the adequate funding and research for a cure not just to cancer, but all diseases, will be made available. Trillions will go towards not a war on drugs, but a war on disease, the true enemy of humanity.

[HKragh]

@Kasu1917 I have no idea how much goes into medicine, compared to squid science, but I wuld guess most :) Getting people healthy turns out to be rather profitable. People are ready to pay almost all they have to get well. So money ARE used. What would happen if ALL money suddenly got transfered into curing all deceases? Suddenly we would have neclected the science that needs to be done to feed all these survived mouths. Or the science that needs to figure out how to sustain so many people(cont.)

[Kasu1917]

@HKragh I disagree that it is profitable to get people healthy. If that were true then high quality health care would be guaranteed as a human right. But with Obama's health care overhaul, health care has been reduced for the poor. It amounts to the gutting of Medicare and Medicaid for the poor, less "inefficient and unnecessary testing", and higher profits for the insurance companies. Their obscene profits are directly related to the reduction of the living standards for the working class.

[HKragh]

@Kasu1917 You misunderstood what I said. I never talked about the care itself. I talked about the science. The fact is, some of the biggest companies on this earth, makes medicine, and do research into how to treat deceaces. Lots of money to be made... That is what we are discussing. The very care, and the hospilization itself is so neclected on quality (and who gets to get it), we agree on that very much!

[Tapecutter59]

@Kasu1917 It's not profitable in a business sense but it is profitable for society as a whole. From a non-US POV I agree the latest attempt to introduce a sane HC system in the US simply entrenched the insurance companies even further. For profit health Insurance companies are the problem not the cure.

[Kasu1917]

@HKragh The technology and resources to provide free health care, education, food, housing, utilities to the population exists, but it is not profitable to the ruling class to provide these things. It is in their interests to defend the profit motive and the capitalist system, and tens millions of previously middle class people are being forced into unemployment and poverty, on a global scale. The only alternative is socialism, the democratic control over all spheres of life, to meet human need

[HKragh]

(Cont.) without poluting the earth too much. It all needs to be balanced. I wasn't saying that this video shows some very importend research done. Only that not all research can be into cancer. We need it all to advance as a civilization.

Lots of new discoveries are done when you are just studying the world, with no real purpose other than the very curiousity itself. This research in this video may teach us something new about intelligence. Who knows.

[shim2dawg]

WHO GIVES A FUCK?

[Krumbz2003]

@shim2dawg

"WHO GIVES A FUCK?"

People who are far more intelligent than you.

[Braydawg69]

@shim2dawg

fuckin retard

[corganator]

hon3stly lol

[oxygenownz]

so...?

[starrychloe]

They only watch HD TV because their vision is so acute that low def CRT videos don't interest them.

[superdios]

hehehe stupid octopus...

[goliathlup1]

So octopuses are getting dummer?

[Mastikator]

Or smart enough to understand a screen.

[Ratama]

so what is this, scientists being dicks?

[Truthiness231]

While not positive that this is completely pointless, I don't see any logical reason as to why we would bother tricking octopi into thinking things on TV are real...

If it would help the undoubtedly costly research: my dog does the same thing. =/

[N7a7v7i]

The point is actually interesting... we can see how good their eyesight is by comparing their reactions to higher and lower quality screens.

For example, I can see that my dog can't see as much detail as I can, because she reacts the same to very low definition and high-def TV screens.

[shorutuburetto]

I think that the video shouldn't really use the word 'trick'. As that's clearly not the aim of the research. As others have said, this is dealing with the vision, eye movement, behaviour, etc of octopi. There are many implications.

As a psychologist, I'm particularly interested in eye movements and they've been shown to be linked to depression in some interesting ways. The eye movements of animals, therefore, could also reveal a lot about behaviour.

[spinmonkey4401]

Science rules but I'm not impressed.

[KryssVF]

Next you'll be making it watch the Little Mermaid to see if it dances with the characters when "Under The Sea" plays.

OMG Octopus' can see video lol

[SnitTrippin]

During the next set of tests we fired a m9 pistol at the octopus to see if it survives. As in previous tests, it did not.

[monkofdark123]

no offence, but wtf was the point of tht?

[nixnix99]

to make humans feel a little smarter.

[re619]

@nixnix99 well, people are way smarter than any other animals, there's no animal that keeps records of it's history or that studies any aspect of anything, what I think is that some animals are about as smart as kids, but could be smarter, because in a natural environment, they aren't tough any other things than just the necessary to survive.

[DamienZshadow]

I believe it is to show that Octopi rely on sight as much as we do while most animals have other senses they use to track food and protect themselves. If you ever played a video of a shark, fish wouldn't react because they use vibrations in the water to detect danger. Octopus sense of sight must be on par with ours then if they react to it like we would.

[mysticmonkeyman]

Octopuses have very advanced eyesight. Possibly more so than humans. Perhaps they are fooled as old tv screens have a low frame rate, so the image is a disjointed flickering to their eyes, which probably just confuses them.

[strangerd4nger]

Also perhaps the first first Octopus faceplant ever caught on tape! XD

[thoojo]

yayy i think you made history by Tricking thiat little animmal.. hhahahaha funny!!

[marceloguiliano]

SceintistA: with the voice of that anoying woman

[marceloguiliano]

@dlivsey92

actually! the point of this...is to make them relize its a video....that its not real...that can fuck up there minds...if you ask me...

[xxxkingjoexxx]

when i was in kindergarden, i had a cat named chewbaka. i came home one day and my mother was watching soap opera's and chewbaka noticed the people on screen right when i walked inside, he looked at them for a second, then started attacking them with his claws out. he swung at the tv for a good minute. needless to say we laughed our asses off. good times man, good times R.I.P. chewbaka.

[jeremyshambles]

@xxxkingjoexxx thats fantastic. my cat only watches tv when theres a skateboarding video on. she is absolutely mesmerized by it. anything else on the tv she ignores but once she sees the skating she is captivated. cheers from san diego

[austpom333]

Pore old pus

[Joez85]

stupid..i guess if u put any animal the result will be the same

[shorutuburetto]

it wouldn't be.

[sandslash123]

kinda cool, but useless

[shorutuburetto]

not really useless. see the other comments.

[ProsecuteCheneyEtAl]

They should get him cable and give him the remote. He could probably figure out how to use it.

[marceloguiliano]

@ProsecuteCheneyEtAl

lol

[anjajune]

And this is the first time I broke my nose trying to catch the octopus on my screen.

[pinoyzlayer]

@anjajune haha, good one!

[quipitory633]

Maybe you just have a stupid octopus.

[Jesusdragon737]

lol how many other times have they tried and failed to trick and octopus using a video?

[ShadyBeagle]

he said octopuses its octopi loll.

[shorutuburetto]

Although I mistakenly said octopi in a comment earlier, octopi is wrong. Pluralising with -i is latin. Octopus is a greek word. If you're trying to be historically correct, then you should argue that the plural is Octopodes. But in English, the plural is Octopuses.

[potatogy]

octopus most intelligent of all invertebrates

[madnessdexter]

yeah smarter then slugs and insects.. lol not much competition there.. its like winning in the special olympics

[positivoshow]

hey show him the movie of pirates of the caribean maybe he can then start playing the piano and smoke pipe

[MRSketch09]

@Vid

Probably because High Definition is being used...

[ELIAXTRO]

Well it's like they say in Texas,

"fool me once

shame on you

fool me twice

you fool me..

you wont get fooled again"

[xXBeach]

gotta love bush

[tazer95]

Haha, dumbass octopi!

[557945]

HD tv:1 Octipus:0!

lols

[Mrmtjones]

when are the HDTVs going to trick humans!?

[Datamanc3r]

actually they're very smart

[Lardothefox]

maybe its a dumbass octopus?

[deathtoallbanans]

kids do the same thing at first

[Warrloker]

Lol :D

[globalarte]

I licked the TV once watching Rose McGowan on Planet Terror.

Nothing happened (i had been been tricked too? :>)

[Hefotos]

This is only part of a huge research project into the psychology and physiology of the octopus brain and nervous system. Read the article if you're skeptical about it.

[brainlicker1]

Omfg we outsmarted an octopus!!!!  O_O score one for hd tv

[youstupidwoman]

and that proves , what ,that scientist need more regulation or you can fool some of the things some times ,there law against people like then inflicting a cruel and unusual punishment

[shorutuburetto]

im not sure this is cruel.

[youstupidwoman]

yes it is ,

[shorutuburetto]

Something isn't cruel just because you've called it cruel. I think you need to justify yourself before you label it cruel :)

[youstupidwoman]

ok,if an entity display joy at the actions of an oppressed or confined being , that would denote an act of crudity ,not limited to and include act that are intended for monetary gain ,including all research where by other methods could be employed,rather than a repetitive actions or denial of comfort to the subject,as such the research would be tainted by the lack of comfort altering the precognitive display of the subjects normal behavior ,so the subject has been cruelly treated ok

[m1ndz00]

HDTV WIN!

[conkt]

It's pronounced octopi, not octopuses.

[dannyboyfour]

Ah, yes. I have a PHD in fucking-with-animals.

[arminask]

this is very useful

[oojamaflipper]

whats the point?

[valentube93]

yay what a discovery ¬¬

[superfisto]

I was tricked the same way once.

[2Luke]

i tried to scare my cat with dog videos... now i got scratched up speakers.

[CognosSquare]

What next? Monty Pythons confuse a cat?

[07nevivarg]

ok so whts the point in doin this?

[DigitizedSelf]

Sooo... is it extremely smart or extremely stupid? :-/

[SpelKille]

Amazing! I can barely think of what fundamental changes that will be in our lives, because of this fantastic knowledge. Wow!

[Hefotos]

@SpelKille

I'm sure your opinion matters much to them.

[Freshman000000]

It adds to our collective understanding of the universe.

[shorutuburetto]

Nicely said, Fresher.