Apologies if this isn't WTF-worthy, but I have always been under the impression that octopodes were very shy creatures. This octopus, however, didn't hesitate to approach a free diver and wrestle his camera out of his hands, then "dash off with it like a thief."

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What it planned to film with the camera, we may never know.

It's not surprising that with eight arms and inquisitive nature, the two-spotted octopus is pretty handy around its tank at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium.

( Octopus flooded aquarium )

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Sharing a movie with an insensitive eight-armed animal may not be every woman's perfect date. Renata Pronk did it for science, and made two significant discoveries. Her unsettling news for Christmas revellers preparing to tuck into seafood platters is that octopuses can watch television and understand at least some of what they see. Discriminating ( Read more... )

So I just got done writing my site's longest article, three solid pages of Cephalopoda including a simple summary of the group and a rather arguable "top ten" of what I consider the most overall impressive. Most of them have probably been posted here at different times in the past, but surely at least one or two facts might be new-ish to any given ( Read more... )

So I checked the tags, and found one post about this little guy, the Mimic Octopus, but the video is tiny, with no explanation of anything, so heres a longer video of its cuteness.

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ISN'T IT JUST FREAKING AWESOME?

( An octopus snuggled into a clam shell. )

Otto The Octopus Wreaks Havoc

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Rubik's Cube used to get on right side of octopuses

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