well i guess this is growing up...
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Octopus Crawls Out of Water and Begins Walking on Land
Wow, check out this amazing video of an octopus literally crawling out of the water and walking across dry land. The video was captured at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve.
It turns out this behavior is not as uncommon as one might expect. Captive octopuses escape with alarming frequency. While on the lam, they have been discovered in teapots and even on bookshelves.
“Some would let themselves be captured, only to use the net as a trampoline. They’d leap off the mesh and onto the floor—and then run for it. Yes, run. You’d chase them under the tank, back and forth, like you were chasing a cat,” Middlebury College researcher Alexa Warburton says. “It’s so weird!”
That said, capturing it on film is quite rare. Mainly because studies on octopuses are so limited due to the creature’s typical shyness and their brief life span of about three years. Back in 2005, the journal Science first published findings on this behavior. However, this was underwater. These octopuses were the first animals to walk on two limbs without a hard skeleton; usually they use all eight legs.
“It wouldn’t surprise me if other octopus species also walk,” said Science author Christine Huffard, from the University of California, Berkeley.
It seems like they do!
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Two of my favorite things: tea and an octopus.
Aahh me too! I take my tea in an octopus mug!
Octopus mothers spend six months blockaded in a cave, spending every moment caring for their eggs. When at last the eggs hatch, the mother, who hasn’t eaten those entire six months, floats out of the cave, disoriented, and dies. Octopus mothers pay the ultimate price to bring their babies into the world, safe and sound.
Happy Mother’s Day. :)
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