Octopus Changing Color

An octopus I caught. It was dead for about an hour, and its still changing color!

Camouflage still active, even when the animal is dead. I had it in a white cooler and the octopus turned white. It turned brownish when I brought it in the kitchen.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• octopus
• camouflage
• tentacles
• ocean
• fishing
• squid
• ink
• dinner
• food
• seafood
• island
• kitchen
• cooking
• cook

[arianna095217504]

wow thats....

Cant beleive people can do that to somthing we find amazing especially something that.

dick wad!

[sr8]

Its called dinner. Humans kill animals every day for food. I wasn't torturing it or abusing it in any manner; the octopus had been dead for several hours. Just documenting how its camouflage was still working. Next time you eat that burger or chicken sandwich, thing about how it got there.

[sanisterg2008]

They do that when they die?

[sr8]

I think its camo was going berserk.

Yeah, this one had been dead for several hours before I brought it home. I had it in a white cooler on ice and the octopus changed to white (to mimic its surroundings). It started turning that brownish color when I took it out of the cooler and put it in the kitchen. The octopus had been dead for more than two hours, but its camouflage was still reacting to its surroundings. Its an amazing animal, even when its 'dead'.

[sanisterg2008]

So what did you do to it?

[sr8]

sushi

[topphemelig]

lol, what if humans had the ability to change colors? *We have found a dead man, he is 27 and bla.. uhm... whit... uhm... bla.... uhm... GHAAA!!!*

[MiHiVidz]

CLIKKA CLICK CLIKKA CLIKKA CLIK CLIKKA CLIK CLIK CKLIK CLIKKA CLIKKA CLIK CLIK CLIKKA!

[TillX]

RORSCHACH OCTOPUSSSSSSS !!!!!1!!!111!!!!

and what kind of camera you have that does that ??????

also i'm wondering if those cells could be encapsulated and preserved, it would make a very interesting tattoo :P

[sega31098]

Is it actually alive?

[ClothoidDoll]

I think that's really cool to see it do that. Did you also make an ink sauce? My fiancee says it's really good. When I fry up baby octopi, I get a lil bit of ink in the pan and it's a pain to clean, but it's tastey

[MonikadeVilette]

@sr8 glad i'm a vegetarian, all i have to think about is apples being cut from trees or potatoes dug out.

[GabrielDoran]

@herafan5 No they actually don't. They have special skin cells that change color, not the ink. The ink can only get into the rest of the body if the ink sac was broken or cut.

[KaoshimaCheshire]

@herafan5 No, Octopi have what are called Chromatophores in their skin, they're pigmented cells that expand and contract.

[herafan5]

Is that ink running through the ocoptus? Is that the same ink they squirt out? So they also use it to change their colour?

[unclebenz59]

i found the source of the ticking! it's a pipe bomb!

[yakyak515]

eww you touched it 0.o ..