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[oakenguy]

Oh. My. God.

I've just spent the last two minutes staring at my monitor with my mouth hanging open. Wow. WOW.

O...O...OCTOPUS!!

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus/media_players_blue/shark_hi.html

Comments

[mythfish.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. That's scary.

And they're smart enough to figure out how to open screw top jars. It's a good thing they have really short lifespans, or they'd be ruling the world I'm sure.

[eregyrn.livejournal.com]

*DAMN*.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

Oh man.

wow.

We saw small version of a couple of these while snorkeling in Hawaii this spring. I'm really really glad I hadn't seen this when we did.

Man.

[43duckies.livejournal.com]

Um...Wow.

Did you notice the way the octopus quickly clamped a tentacle over the shark's mouth so it couldn't bite? Wow.

Re:clamped a tentacle over the shark's mouth so it couldn't bite?

[lilacsinmarch.livejournal.com]

Maybe he did it so that the shark wouldn't be able to scream for help :P.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Wow.

*Just like me/They want to be/Close to GLOMP STRUGGLE STRANGLE STRAIN FOLD SPINDLE MUTILATE*

That's plumb cool.

[st-emma.livejournal.com]

You know, at the start of this video, I really, really thought it was going to go the other way.

That's really disturbing.

[daemionfox.livejournal.com]

Thanks, you get to rock me to sleep tonight.

Can't sleep, Cthulu will get me...

Actually, any idea if this show is coming to our local PBS anytime soon?

[injust.livejournal.com]

holy shitballs, that's incredible.

[sairisse.livejournal.com]

Aww, they're hugging!

[ronsonbeck.livejournal.com]

If only the shark had known enough to bite the octopus between the eyes, like Japanese fishermen do...

What I want to know is a sense of scale, i.e., just how freakin' big were these two animals?

[43duckies.livejournal.com]

It says in the narration that the sharks were 3-4 feet long (when it talks about all the sharks being found missing). They looked bigger, but then perspective is wonky in a video like that.

[godswraith.livejournal.com]

Oh see, i read Octopussy, and was totally going down a different road of thought.....

[fightguy.livejournal.com]

I love how you don't get any sense of their relative sizes until the 'pus strikes.

I totally wanna visit this aquarium now! "Excuse me, which way to the Kraken tank..?"

[artemint.livejournal.com]

Damn. That is one ass-kicking octopus.

[kissedbythegods.livejournal.com]

I'm scarred for life!

[meesto.livejournal.com]

That is the coolest thing I've seen all year. Thanks!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

WOW. I watched it twice. Daaaamn.

[captain-quint.livejournal.com]

I guess sharks are not always the top predator in the ocean food web.

[marefromagf.livejournal.com]

Just when I thought it was safe to go back into the water, too.

[lilacsinmarch.livejournal.com]

:S It looked like a scene from a Jules Verne book.