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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

Date: 2005-08-08 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2005-08-08 05:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eregyrn.livejournal.com
*DAMN*.

Date: 2005-08-08 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2005-08-08 05:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.
From: [identity profile] lilacsinmarch.livejournal.com
Maybe he did it so that the shark wouldn't be able to scream for help :P.

Date: 2005-08-08 05:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2005-08-08 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2005-08-08 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

Date: 2005-08-08 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] injust.livejournal.com
holy shitballs, that's incredible.

Date: 2005-08-08 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sairisse.livejournal.com
Aww, they're hugging!

Date: 2005-08-08 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

Date: 2005-08-08 06:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2005-08-08 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godswraith.livejournal.com
Oh see, i read Octopussy, and was totally going down a different road of thought.....

Date: 2005-08-08 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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..?"

Date: 2005-08-08 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] artemint.livejournal.com
Damn. That is one ass-kicking octopus.

Date: 2005-08-08 06:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kissedbythegods.livejournal.com
I'm scarred for life!

Date: 2005-08-08 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meesto.livejournal.com
That is the coolest thing I've seen all year. Thanks!

Date: 2005-08-08 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmolly.livejournal.com
WOW. I watched it twice. Daaaamn.

Date: 2005-08-08 10:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captain-quint.livejournal.com
I guess sharks are not always the top predator in the ocean food web.

Date: 2005-08-08 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marefromagf.livejournal.com
Just when I thought it was safe to go back into the water, too.

Date: 2005-08-09 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lilacsinmarch.livejournal.com
:S It looked like a scene from a Jules Verne book.

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