Octopus Mimics Flounder
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Uploaded by DiscoveryNetworks on Mar 9, 2010
New video shows an octopus disguising itself as a flounder. Marine Biological Laboratory senior scientist Roger Hanlon talks to James Williams about the eight-armed impersonator.
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"moving and behaving like a flounder" ---> interesting! very smart!
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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.'
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wow. some of the stuff they mimic seems rather odd than functional. could this partly be recreational behaviour?
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the mimic octopus never looses at charades
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should've shown a flounder so I could see what you were talking about, instead you just telling me
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this shits intense
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why mimic a flounder? flounders are tasty :P
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But it looks like a flounder the fish have seen.
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''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}
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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
brotherjupiter 1 year ago 24
octopi are fucking smart
cookielover1213 1 year ago 7