Amazing video of a camouflaged octopus.

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Octopuses are awesome at camo. They can also change the texture of their skin in addition to the pigment variations.
 
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.
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Lucky Forward said:
Wasn't Camouflaged Octopus a Metal Gear Solid character?
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His name was Decoy Octopus, and was a human that would change his appearance. Not an actual Octopus. :lol
 
scola said:
you guys missed the whole ocotpus walking on two arms thing?
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That one is fascinating. Just be grateful that octopus hasn't been speaking to invisible guy.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
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Octopuses is correct
 
Is there a clip of this "walking on two arms" bit? Or anywhere to download that Octopus Special with the Mimic?
 
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.
 
One of my favorite cephalopods... Vampyroteuthis Infernalis "Vampire Squid from Hell"

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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/
 
These videos are sweet. Deep sea animals are so much cooler than above ground ones.
 
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.
 
Thes guys have the craziest color changes

Broadclub Cuttlefish

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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
 
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
 
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
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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.

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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.

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Wow.
Smartest. Animal. Ever.
 
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.

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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.
 
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