• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

Amazing video of a camouflaged octopus.

Status
Not open for further replies.
A

android

Theoretical Magician
Yep they do that. Easily one on the most intelligent and amazing creatures on the planet.
 
R

Rorschach

Member
Octopuses are awesome at camo. They can also change the texture of their skin in addition to the pigment variations.
 
H

heavy liquid

Member
They're really cool animals. The video is NOT fake:

http://www.australiancephalopods.com/occy_defense.html

They produce elaborate colour patterns and highly complex skin textures capable of matching a wide range of backgrounds from sand and reef rubble, through to spiked corals and seaweeds. Their skin changes almost instantaneously as they move over different substrates on the sea floor. Colour changes are carried out by small, elastic, pigment-filled sacs, known as chromatophores. A square centimetre of skin may contain hundreds of chromatophores, in up to five colours in certain species. Each chromatophore is surrounded by a ring of muscle fibres, all of which are under the rapid and coordinated control of the large optic lobes of the brain.
Click to expand...
 
J

jenov4

Member
Lucky Forward said:
Wasn't Camouflaged Octopus a Metal Gear Solid character?
Click to expand...

His name was Decoy Octopus, and was a human that would change his appearance. Not an actual Octopus. :lol
 
8

8bit

Knows the Score
scola said:
you guys missed the whole ocotpus walking on two arms thing?
Click to expand...

That one is fascinating. Just be grateful that octopus hasn't been speaking to invisible guy.
 
M

miyuru

Member
It looks so fake, but real at the same time (I'm having a hard time as to how they'd fake something that well).

It's just.......man if it's real, so amazing. The things that make it seem fake to me is that it looks like a video and they just faded in the octupus. But I'm going to take it as real, since everyone here is saying it is. It's just like, man, perfection in camouflage.
 
P

Pimpwerx

Member
It's octo-fucking-pi, goddammit!

Oh yeah, the mimic octopus is my favorite b/c it seems to mimic objects in an intelligent manner. It could just be instinct, but it's still fucking amazing either way. I wanna see this shark-eating octopus. I think it's the only one I haven't seen. PEACE.
 
V

Vlad

Member
Pimpwerx said:
It's octo-fucking-pi, goddammit!

Oh yeah, the mimic octopus is my favorite b/c it seems to mimic objects in an intelligent manner. It could just be instinct, but it's still fucking amazing either way. I wanna see this shark-eating octopus. I think it's the only one I haven't seen. PEACE.
Click to expand...

I thought the video was going to be about the mimic octopus before I downloaded it, too. While the posted video is pretty cool, I think I'm also more wowed by the mimic, simply for the sheer number of things that it can imitate.
 
O

olimario

Banned
Pimpwerx said:
It's octo-fucking-pi, goddammit!

Oh yeah, the mimic octopus is my favorite b/c it seems to mimic objects in an intelligent manner. It could just be instinct, but it's still fucking amazing either way. I wanna see this shark-eating octopus. I think it's the only one I haven't seen. PEACE.
Click to expand...

Octopuses is correct
 
R

Rlan

Member
Is there a clip of this "walking on two arms" bit? Or anywhere to download that Octopus Special with the Mimic?
 
S

sc0la

Unconfirmed Member
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~chuffard/index_files/Bipedal_octopuses.htm

here is a link to some info on the two octopi capable of bipedal movement. The reason this is significant is because an octopus must "concentrate" to remain camouflaged, it requires neural activity that normal motion takes up. Basically when these ones "walk" it is just a muscle memory and they can continue their dopleganging.

Click the link on "press release" on the page here for two more videos. One looks like a coconut the other looks like a seaweed bunch.
 
Jesus Carbomb

Jesus Carbomb

From Water into Guinness
One of my favorite cephalopods... Vampyroteuthis Infernalis "Vampire Squid from Hell"

Vamppsquid.jpg
bigeye.jpg
vampireinverted.jpg


Not as fierce as its name implies (rather layed back actually), but still pretty darn cool non the less. http://pharyngula.org/comments/557_0_1_0_C/
 
H

Hitman

Edmonton's milkshake attracts no boys.
These videos are sweet. Deep sea animals are so much cooler than above ground ones.
 
M

MIMIC

Banned
That is so fucking fake.

That's not an octopus....that's Joe from "Family Guy" when he blended in with his house to fool his neighbors.
 
R

robochimp

Member
Thes guys have the craziest color changes

Broadclub Cuttlefish

Link

Look for the video called " Broadclub Cuttlefish Feeds (Shadowing)" on that page

They do this crazy shifting through colors to kind of hypnotize their prey
 
Kuramu

Kuramu

Member
I love Cuttlefish, their skin always looks like it's in flux, if only a little. I wonder what it would feel like to have so much brain power focused on controlling all those chromataphors (however you spell it) As to the octopus, i wonder if they choose their colors by looking at their surroundings, or if they have some sort of light detection on their skin to help choose the colors. Anyway, always amazing to watch... cephalopods are my favorite animal family or genus or whatever. I even wrote a (nut job) song about them
 
J

Jeffahn

Member
Kuramu said:
I love Cuttlefish, their skin always looks like it's in flux, if only a little. I wonder what it would feel like to have so much brain power focused on controlling all those chromataphors (however you spell it) As to the octopus, i wonder if they choose their colors by looking at their surroundings, or if they have some sort of light detection on their skin to help choose the colors. Anyway, always amazing to watch... cephalopods are my favorite animal family or genus or whatever. I even wrote a (nut job) song about them
Click to expand...

Well, the theory is that they scan their surroundings and then 'map' how they need to appear to blend in. They tested this by placing an Octopus in a tank with a chess-board pattern on the floor, and it did a fairly good impression of it even though it had never encountered the pattern before.

...
 
S

Stryder

Member
Jeffahn said:
Well, the theory is that they scan their surroundings and then 'map' how they need to appear to blend in. They tested this by placing an Octopus in a tank with a chess-board pattern on the floor, and it did a fairly good impression of it even though it had never encountered the pattern before.

...
Click to expand...
Wow.
Smartest. Animal. Ever.
 
M

miyuru

Member
Jeffahn said:
Well, the theory is that they scan their surroundings and then 'map' how they need to appear to blend in. They tested this by placing an Octopus in a tank with a chess-board pattern on the floor, and it did a fairly good impression of it even though it had never encountered the pattern before.

...
Click to expand...

Haha cool! I'd love to see this stuff in person, I mean the degree to which the organism is camouflaged in these vids is incredible, it's seriously unreal.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Amazing Moments in games that amazed you?
2
84
3K
IDKFA replied
Corey Haim's 1989 video "Me, Myself and I" - The best, worst, most cringiest "documentary" ever?
42
4K
Winter John replied
Gizmodo: ‘Path of Exile 2’ Players Call Bullshit on Elon Musk’s Video Game Stream
Community 2 3 4
151
9K
nowhat replied
LTTP: Yakuza 6
27
1K
Chuck Berry replied
Wow A Link to the Past is amazing
2 3 4
168
12K
Ikutachi replied
Top Bottom