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Uploaded by on Feb 28, 2008

Common Caribbean Octopus vulgaris camouflage change (video footage courtesy of Roger Hanlon).

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  • anyone who thinks this is CGI needs to get out more.

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  • girl's bathroom...here I come...:D jkjk  this is tight!!

  • Snake? Snake?! SNAKE!!!!

  • dam the eye freaks me out

  • wow!! wtf!!!??? absulutly amazing!!!

  • I've seen this before and thought it was some sort of FX.

  • One example would be a firefly squid, with bioluminescent photophores all over its body, and so counter shading it when it is in the twilight zone, a method also used by the deep sea hatchetfish

  • god put it there to test my faith

  • some cephalopods do use bioluminescence in their camouflage, though. don't know about this octopus, but certain kinds of squid have bioluminescent patches under their eyes to cancel out their shadow. nifty!

  • Not to mention that it would be an insult to that very resourceful octopus.

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