as someone who took care of octopuses I know for a fact that guy is having the time of his life. my octopus would get excited whenever they saw me get there toys and challenges ready
That's actually very cool. But how can you tell if your octopus is excited or stressed? What exactly changes in its behavior that you can tell he is feeling this emotions?
@@marcosilva9644 its not as tough as you would imagine, stressed octopus act very shy, frustrated, and would usually hide and curl up and try to camo. excited octopus would explore more, stretch out there tentacles to feel around there environment, and just generally move around more. when my octopus wanted to play they would go up to the top of the tank and spit out water at me like a water gun. i would come over and place my hand over the tank and they would climb around my fingers and such. when they got stressed out they would move all the live rock to form a fortress around them and when u try moving it they would wait and move it back. (they would do the same thing when they get upset at me but there behavior would be more rapid like showing me there moving the rocks by slaming them around and causing a small tantrum. whats important to note is to not really compare much to what humans do. i guess studying them for so long u can get a feel for them. i guess to others being stressed can be confused for shy or being excited can be confused with angression. Octopus are smart but there solitary puzzle solving creatures. a challenge would make them feel more at home then a larger tank with food just giving to them. they do get bored.
"Rudy, why does it take so long"? "I was struggling". "Struggle for what"? "I can't let human know it is too easy, it will hurt their feeling. They spent days building these rooms, I must let them enjoy it for couple minutes".
@@hloog0 not if it's both the end of the quotation AND the sentence. If u play gramma-police, do it right pls. Well it does depend wether it's US or UK i guess.
@@perkuu6937 I did a whole lot of research because of this Channel. I have always loved octopuses. And spiders… I guess it’s an eight leg thing. LOL anyway I digress, in my research I found some of the most amazing things about the octopus. Their intelligence has recently been equivocated to that of an ape. Before this discovery science and researchers only thought that mammals could have the type of intelligence and emotion that octopus show. It is so incredible. And I hate the channels and unsubscribed to the channels where they walk along the shore and throw 30 octopus into a bucket and take them home and boil them. Ugh! To think that they know in their own way what is going on is absolutely horrid to me.
You say humans. That means atleast two, I remember as a child I was able to use my feet to open a door. If there are two humans and at least a few days before starvation that means they can use all four limbs and if needed their mouths. It's rather easy
Robert Wheeler Yep! You sort got me there. I had spotted that flaw but was too lazy to fix it and I would have to think that any octopus smart enough to build such a trap and also capable of luring a human (see what I did there) into it, would also be smarter than me and realise that it’s either one human at a time or more knobs.
I'm particularly impressed by how Rudy deals with the 4th challenge. The 1st time he hits the button, he's clearly encountering a new phenomenon (he'd had no experience with it before). The 2nd time, he's testing how it works (how long does the door stay open). The 3rd time, he *goes* for it! Even with higher-level deductive abilities, that's *really* few iterations to make a successful escape! Go Rudy!
Wondering if the recording of the last test was spliced up to show only a few of his attempts for brevity’s sake, but if it really did only take him 3 attempts, that’s exceptional for sure! And even if it did take him more attempts than shown it’s still pretty impressive
Jimmy Akin eh, I mean... I kinda agree with you, but mostly I just think that 1 minute in he pushed a button. 1-2 minutes later he pushed a button. When he reaches 6 minutes in he pushes the button, sees the open door, and goes.
I think he dealt with the push button before but the door was on the right side of the cage last time. He both times hit the button and bolted for the right side looking for the door.. On the 3rd attempt he seen the trap door had been moved.
Rudy was definitely a bit concerned about the light challenge. You can tell he backs away because he's unsure what the light is, but knows the button did something. So he tries the button again. Again, things change immediately, but this time he moves away slower, taking more time to observe, and the third time can tell that he's just opening a door and the light is a distraction. That's how it looked to me, at least.
I came looking for this comment. You can really see the octopus actually thinking and learning. First time he assessed the risk, second time he observed, third time he executed.
i dont think he ran away because od thw light change in general, i think because it was green. if you watch the reaction to color video, orange and purple really got them, but they ran from green. as he realized it was just a color change here after the 2 tries, he was still sketchy but saw it wasnt a threat
He did surprisingly well on the timed button light door challenge, considering all of those elements would not be found in nature, unlike the other challenges.
I was worried when I saw how fast the door closes. Perhaps he didn't want to go through on attempt #2 because he wasn't sure about the timing. Then he took 2 minutes to think, pep himself up and perhaps recheck for other exits, then went straight for the door.
Yes they are smart. They are well known to solve puzzles. Rudy probably connected the dots with how long did the light stay on while the gate door opened. He did a good job in solving this one. 🐙
I swear, every time I see an octopus do things like this, I become more and more convinced that theyre an alien species that became stuck here from a crash landing
It just shows how easy any other species could become as intelligent or even more than us. We are not that special. If octopuses could live longer like we did, they would be a force to be reckoned with.
No! Humans are the aliens. We came from Mars and those who knew made us believe we originated here and evolved. But in reality we came here after our own planet died. Octopi are the real kings of this planet back when it was almost completely water. It was as big as Krakens in the stories but we claimed this planet our own and made ourselves believe that we are the only sentient beings. We are the aliens on this planet.
At my old college campus in one of the science labs they had an octopus and lots of tanks of fish... a friend of mine who had marine biology classes told me that the octopus would escape the tank, go over to the fish tanks and open them up, eat some fish, and then go back to it's tank and close the lid. they thought students were stealing fish so they ran a security camera and caught it in the act. LMAO
I saw a video of an aquarium that had sharks in it, and they kept disappearing and no one could find any dead bodies or figure out where they went. They set up a camera of the aquarium, and I guess they forgot that an octopus shared the same tank. It was a giant octopus, and they actually caught it hunting down and capturing a shark. The octopus ate the entire shark. Mystery solved.
I think anyone who tries to claim this is "abuse" just doesn't understand that this is enrichment for them. For dogs and cats, enrichment is laser pointer or toss a ball or mouse. For birds, perches and toys with things for them to climb, ring bells, work their beaks on, etc. For octopuses, you can't do any of that so give them puzzles to solve and exercise their brains.
Yeah. And, if you ask em there is other content on here which IS abuse. Like, I saw a video of a women eating octopus live. She didn't kill them before hand, either.
@@alonelybatinisolation2746 there was another video where she put a live octopus on a grill and brushed on some marinade or sauce, you can see the poor thing trying to escape
@@ch0nkybirbbean63 Thats fucking sad. I don't understand how somebody elses video got taken down for animal abuse when they killed a cockroach but this is fine.
My mom was a biology teacher, and we had an octopus for awhile in her high school classroom. Occasionally we'd come into the classroom in the morning only to find the octopus on the floor in the middle of the room. He was such a little escape artist. Fascinating, beautiful creatures. Thank you.
@@thecreature916 He was amazing. He would swim from one side of the tank and get on a rock and change colors, then he swim to the other side of the tank and get on another rock and change colors. He was almost affectionate… He wanted to touch you, and wanted to interact through the glass. He was beautiful. We lost him after hurricane Alicia in Houston when the power went out and the tank failed. But it is an experience I will never forget.
They can identify people by they faces, I cant believe that since they never encounter people in the wild. Consider how smart they have to be for that its not even in their interest to look at people
Hi Kat. Yes!!!! My marine biology teacher in highschool kept his pet octopus in a huge tank in our room. There were many times he escaped during the night and found by my teacher in the silliest places. I'll never forget it. Soooooo sweet
You can tell when the situation is figured out but the octopus tries to see if the difficult way is the only way before attempted! He/she is weighing the options :o never knew they were so brilliant!
That absolutely floors me. The bridge one would have been over fastest out of all of them if he hadn't been like, "Ugh, I really don't want to go out there. I'm gonna look for a different way."
This reminds me of the time this zoo noticed fish constantly missing so wen they installed security cameras they found the octopus was getting out of his tank, strolling over to the fish, eating one, then going back to his tank! 🤯🐙🐟
What freaks me out is that in the last challenge, he didn't just hit the button by accident or anything. He hit the button, observed what happened a few times, then hit the button and strolled out. Meanwhile, the entire human race struggles with the concept of push/pull doors.
he didn't even hit the button apart from the first time... they opened the door whenever a tentacle touched the button even slightly, not shitting on the octopus or anything else but it clearly wasn't consciously pushing the button knowing it opened the door whatsoever.
I believe you entirely when you say he wasn’t stressed, if anything he looked curious but I’m so fascinated by cephalopods that I’d love to know how you can tell when they’re stressed or not. What behaviours do they display differently?
They will change color (dark orange or red), puff up, stand tall on the legs. And swim very fast (whoosh!) I learned all this from their previous uploaded videos.
I don't know if it applies to every kind of stress, but when feeling threatened octopuses will often change colour (specially around their eyes and mouth to make them look bigger and more threatening) and release ink
I imagine by now this little guy probably understands/trusts to some level that he's not being put in dangerous situations. Someone's just putting him in another box with some bullcrap he has to deal with for a few minutes. Who knows? It could be really good for them to be kept mentally active with unusual stimuli, like how dolphins, people, many types of birds, etc. get depressed when things are the same all the time because our brains are so developed.
Ok....did I just see your Octopus peak his eye out of the water and assess the bridge. Then go back to the other side of the tank, and pop his eye out again to look at it from a different perspective - to see farther down the bridge? Wow. Smarty. Then, I’m sure he didn’t do a little dance when he got out of challenge #4 but it kinda looked as if he did...
@@ghostgamingxd7881 also birds,dogs cats and other animals. Did you see the cat that saved his boy the little boy was getting attacked by a dog and the cat runs and body slams the dog the cat Tara saved the boy. All animals are smart.
For the 2nd and 3rd challenge it seemed to be more of a question of "do I want to do this?" Meanwhile for the 4th challenge he was initially bothered by the lighting change, he analyzed what happens for the second push, and he knew exactly what to do on his final attempt.
I think he was being more cautious than taking time to figure it out, especially in the first 3. He seemed to be doing the look - retreat - look again - act (with repeats when necessary). He's a smart little cookie!
I get a strong impression that, in #2 and #3, he was looking for alternate routes, and in #4 he was alarmed by the lighting change at first, but once he realized there was no immediate danger associated, he went on to study the challenge further. So cool and relatable!
I love how the first time he pressed the button he seemed a little startled, then the second time he seemed to wait and see what it did and by the third time he was completely ready to go through the gate as soon as it opened.
There isn't really anything else to listen to tho. Octopus doesn't make noise, there's no sound effects going on. In this case you could literally just turn down your sound and not miss anything
Octopuses are incredible animals. Here's a story I heard a while ago: A research group wanted to study some octopuses, so they laid four traps and baited them with fish. The traps were designed so that they were easy to enter, but nearly impossible to exit. When they came back later to check the traps, three were empty. The fourth had an octopus and the fish from all the other traps.
Yea they aint gonna harm him tho and we would not kno the cool story of him gettin out of 3 other traps. At least they were smart enuf to use different types of traps. I like learning new thing bout em
He sort off did... The goal of the octopus was to eat all the fish, not to not get trapped. If he got all the fish in 1 tank, with him inside that tank... he could eat them all.
🐙 Yawwwn. Enough of your bull****, humans. I do exactly what you want and for what: one lousy snack! First chance I get Im gonna show these humans how it feels to live in this circus 😡
What an amazing octopus he is and so focused on his goals. My favorite part is level 3- the bridge Challenge! Rudy the true master of escape, the Steve McQueen of Octopuses!
Rudy is an amazing creature, and so beautiful and graceful too,,,,, what a lovely animal, spectacular. And I must say, much brighter than I am. As I am a human. And that doesn’t really say much does it!!!!!!
An average octopus would eviscerate a mantis shrimp. They're too smart and way, way, way, larger. Now a mantis shrimp's punch is the strongest on earth pound for pound. The prob is the octopus would be impenetrable and then strangle or decide numerous ways fo quickly pummel to mantis shrimp to an immediate death.
I get so excited seeing octopuses using their intelligence and solving little puzzles. Everytime I see them complete one I just get so happy, they're so smart!!
I was just telling my boyfriend how smart Rudy is-he found the hidden opening, the tube, the bridge AND he opened the door and my boyfriend goes "yeah they are not good at math though."
Actually he was exploring options and measuring satey risk of taking a routw je had not seen before. He would have gone a dark red/light black had he een frustrated. Movements like that are very common amung the octopus.
anyone else think the reason the later challenges took so long was that he was looking for the hidden door from the first challenge? seeing if the human pulled a sneaky on him
Me: "Ha! I would have escaped in 30 seconds!" Also me, in literally any video game puzzle: "Let me spend 30 minutes checking every feature of this room to make sure I'm not missing anything."
And end up opening one of the forbidden chests and miss out on the ultimate weapon anyway because the prerequisite is to have those chests unopened at that point in the game (FFXII)
Thank you for properly testing octopuses' intelligence and not "Oooh, they can squeeze through a hole, so intelligent!" I already knew they were exceptionally intelligent but before this channel, I've never seen someone try to test them -on their level- and not on the level of a human infant. The same mistake was made with ravens and I think previous researchers should feel ashamed for assuming those animals were so dumb. Octopuses particularly, because if they don't feel challenged, they'll be bored out of their mind and won't bother playing along. Others might only if there's food and that's fine.
The fact that Rudy knew that he was in something with an escape route is amazing, I mean you didn't say to him beforehand, you couldn't, Octopus rock 💖😁
@retsaM innavoiG I agree with you I could not eat them. We have 3 goats they are silly haha. This octopus is very intelligent I don't know why anyone would eat an octopus and or goats.
Aside from being amazing escape artist, I love it how octopus is totally deliberate at what it is doing - it always seems to first investigate a little, then measure pros and cons before coming up with a strategy and going for it. They are so cute and fascinating, I shall not eat them in a salad anymore.
“We made sure to take small interview breaks in between each challenge to make sure Rudy was feeling comfortable. Luckily his clear English communicated how much he loved being in that narrow tube.”
I'm sure an octopus has behavior it exhibits when stressed and they're saying it didnt exhibit those behaviors. Just like how we dont have to talk to dogs to know how they feel. These fucking things are scary smart lol.
The last challenge went like "Ok, I know the door is there, I know I have to be fast and I know there's going to be green. Green bad. Calm down, I can do this." I know humans who wouldn't have done it in less than 7 minutes.
What a clever octo! Well done Rudy! Loved that he was challenged and seemed very engaged in the escapes! He seemed happy to participate, has to be a little dull to not be exploring the wild ocean floor, I also appreciate that you limit your time with them and release back to the wild, as their time is well, limited tho I love discovering how intelligent these creatures are!
Cephalopods are so smart. I live watching them do things like solve puzzles or change colors/shape to suit their needs. It's one of the reasons I have decided I will never eat them.
I loved the way he was already at the door in the last challenge! And yes, would love to see it repeated as suggested by some other viewers! I bet he will be racing through his obstacle course with the greatest of ease! Lol!
I love the reaction it had when the lighting changed. Like, he saw the door but he seemed more interested in knowing what was making the color change! With perhaps a bit of surprise at the fact.
I've actually vowed to never eat Octopus again, because I just love them, but they are incredibly delicious. So I'd have to disagree, maybe where you tried them, they weren't prepared right? But that's ok, it's probably better you continue to not like the taste. I wish I didn't. ;)
Agreed. They are quite clearly sentient and sapient, though the form this takes is quite alien yet familiar. They also appear to be on equal footing with Dolphins, Crows, and Humans in terms of intellectual capacity, but have dexterity that is equal to if not greater than humans.
notice he inspects every inch of the cage just to make sure there isn't a gap he can fit his beak through(the only limitation for a octopuses ability to fit through things) before trying the puzzle.
Considering what I know about octopus the odds of them helping you out are high but the odds of them dicking around for 15 minutes just to mess with you are you even higher
In the last challenge , he actually seemed more interested in the changing of the light's color than the opening of the door...and retreated to the corner to determine if that change was threat of some kind - perhaps. After a while , he was bored of the changing light and headed out the door. This was REEEEALLY cool to watch - thanks for sharing this !!
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as someone who took care of octopuses I know for a fact that guy is having the time of his life. my octopus would get excited whenever they saw me get there toys and challenges ready
Wait do u work at a place or own a octopus?
@@Stewarew Worked at an aquarium after i graduated with a degree in marine science. raised them up since they where small so i consider them my babies
That's actually very cool. But how can you tell if your octopus is excited or stressed? What exactly changes in its behavior that you can tell he is feeling this emotions?
@@marcosilva9644 its not as tough as you would imagine, stressed octopus act very shy, frustrated, and would usually hide and curl up and try to camo. excited octopus would explore more, stretch out there tentacles to feel around there environment, and just generally move around more. when my octopus wanted to play they would go up to the top of the tank and spit out water at me like a water gun. i would come over and place my hand over the tank and they would climb around my fingers and such. when they got stressed out they would move all the live rock to form a fortress around them and when u try moving it they would wait and move it back. (they would do the same thing when they get upset at me but there behavior would be more rapid like showing me there moving the rocks by slaming them around and causing a small tantrum. whats important to note is to not really compare much to what humans do. i guess studying them for so long u can get a feel for them. i guess to others being stressed can be confused for shy or being excited can be confused with angression. Octopus are smart but there solitary puzzle solving creatures. a challenge would make them feel more at home then a larger tank with food just giving to them. they do get bored.
@@MrFotizzile that's cool
It's acting like in a video game : Ok, the exit is this way, but let's check every corner so i don't miss anything before...
Rudy the level 10 Kalamari Wizard, Expert Dungeoncrawler, level 2 Bard, Son of Menethil, Father to Behor and Malachite.
@@ABurntMuffin is that a dnd reference idk ive never played it
Gotta find all the gear pieces
@@chriscashflow2238 lmao he's trying to get all the jiggies
ABurntMuffin banjo kazooie refernce
"Rudy, why does it take so long"?
"I was struggling".
"Struggle for what"?
"I can't let human know it is too easy, it will hurt their feeling. They spent days building these rooms, I must let them enjoy it for couple minutes".
wow just... wow
Asmobia punctuation goes inside of quotation btw
@@hloog0 not if it's both the end of the quotation AND the sentence. If u play gramma-police, do it right pls.
Well it does depend wether it's US or UK i guess.
PureFluffiness I’m not “gramma police”
PureFluffiness and I’m in us
It’s almost like he knows he’s being challenged and he enjoys it. This is so amazing.
octopuses do actually like to play, so maybe this is just fun learning or something, i dont know
@@perkuu6937 I did a whole lot of research because of this Channel. I have always loved octopuses. And spiders… I guess it’s an eight leg thing. LOL anyway I digress, in my research I found some of the most amazing things about the octopus. Their intelligence has recently been equivocated to that of an ape. Before this discovery science and researchers only thought that mammals could have the type of intelligence and emotion that octopus show. It is so incredible. And I hate the channels and unsubscribed to the channels where they walk along the shore and throw 30 octopus into a bucket and take them home and boil them. Ugh! To think that they know in their own way what is going on is absolutely horrid to me.
Octopi are definitely more sentient than we understand
So I wouldn’t be surprised of what it is actually aware of and if it is enjoying it
They are creatures that engage in solitary play, just like.... Literally no other species on earth.
How an octopus could trap humans?
Put them in a room with a door that has eight door knobs.
no good! better make it six so you can hold the human and open the door
You say humans. That means atleast two, I remember as a child I was able to use my feet to open a door. If there are two humans and at least a few days before starvation that means they can use all four limbs and if needed their mouths. It's rather easy
Robert Wheeler Yep!
You sort got me there. I had spotted that flaw but was too lazy to fix it and I would have to think that any octopus smart enough to build such a trap and also capable of luring a human (see what I did there) into it, would also be smarter than me and realise that it’s either one human at a time or more knobs.
Humans could also kick down a door
diesereineTyp not this one, it’s pure titanium and 5 feet thick!
I'd like to see how Rudy does a week later with the same challenges to see how well he remembers. Love the channel by the way
Ooh, that's a good idea
Excellent suggestion. I'd love to see what their capacity for long term memory is.
Wow 126 likes on my comment. That's amazing thanks everyone who liked it
That would be interesting since I recall hearing that octopuses tend to have relatively poor long term memories
That seems like the logical next step. Hell its only been 4 days hopefully this dude takes the cue
I imagine it when put on the cage again like: ah shit, here we go again
ditto
Rudy is tired of the humans shenanigans
You wrote it first. Have a like
True but octopuses in captivity need challenges like this or they get really bored
@@_elaineee_ yeah, then they escape and mess around with the humans for the fun of it.
“Not bad, hooman, you almost made me use 3% of my brain”
Which brain? 😂
@@leejocson3855 that brain
@@Amsyar_al-BaAlawi 1st brain? 2nd brain? third brain? 9th brain? be specific 😂
"Hooman" makes me cringe so hard, sorry.
They say homo sapiens.
I’m literally pushing the known limits of procrastination right now
Ankit Rawat can you please explain your joke??
Andr jsja N homework during quarantine
currently stuck at work "working" LOL
Yeah, feels bad, but its made better by this video
ugh same. it's my last day of high school and if you think i'd spend it being productive for the first time, you're dead wrong.
I'm particularly impressed by how Rudy deals with the 4th challenge. The 1st time he hits the button, he's clearly encountering a new phenomenon (he'd had no experience with it before). The 2nd time, he's testing how it works (how long does the door stay open). The 3rd time, he *goes* for it! Even with higher-level deductive abilities, that's *really* few iterations to make a successful escape! Go Rudy!
Wondering if the recording of the last test was spliced up to show only a few of his attempts for brevity’s sake, but if it really did only take him 3 attempts, that’s exceptional for sure! And even if it did take him more attempts than shown it’s still pretty impressive
Jimmy Akin eh, I mean... I kinda agree with you, but mostly I just think that 1 minute in he pushed a button. 1-2 minutes later he pushed a button. When he reaches 6 minutes in he pushes the button, sees the open door, and goes.
This octopus is smarter than almost every living things ... human included ☺️
I think he dealt with the push button before but the door was on the right side of the cage last time. He both times hit the button and bolted for the right side looking for the door.. On the 3rd attempt he seen the trap door had been moved.
Jérôme cap
Rudy was definitely a bit concerned about the light challenge. You can tell he backs away because he's unsure what the light is, but knows the button did something. So he tries the button again. Again, things change immediately, but this time he moves away slower, taking more time to observe, and the third time can tell that he's just opening a door and the light is a distraction. That's how it looked to me, at least.
To me it looked like he randomly bumped the switch while one of his tentacles was touching the moving door.
Wow nice play by play. 😂
The third time he definitely knew what he was doing.
I came looking for this comment. You can really see the octopus actually thinking and learning. First time he assessed the risk, second time he observed, third time he executed.
i dont think he ran away because od thw light change in general, i think because it was green. if you watch the reaction to color video, orange and purple really got them, but they ran from green. as he realized it was just a color change here after the 2 tries, he was still sketchy but saw it wasnt a threat
He did surprisingly well on the timed button light door challenge, considering all of those elements would not be found in nature, unlike the other challenges.
I was worried when I saw how fast the door closes. Perhaps he didn't want to go through on attempt #2 because he wasn't sure about the timing. Then he took 2 minutes to think, pep himself up and perhaps recheck for other exits, then went straight for the door.
Yes they are smart. They are well known to solve puzzles. Rudy probably connected the dots with how long did the light stay on while the gate door opened. He did a good job in solving this one. 🐙
Rudy looks like me trying to find all the easter eggs before i beat a level on a video game.
You don't call em levels
@@nathangregorymeyer4025 what then?
@@nathangregorymeyer4025 what then?
Every little corner lol I know how you feel
@@nathangregorymeyer4025 rounds? Steps?
Looking at Rudy's eyes, I can tell he is smarter than some of my co-workers
@I gRape Babies ok "I grape babies" 😂😂😂 your probably her co worker
@@AdrianTheG no no, hes got a point
Looks like grapes don't like you at all since his 2nd comment was deleted.
I gRape Babies maybe you can stop assuming things. You don’t know the full story
Also he is smarter than u
I swear, every time I see an octopus do things like this, I become more and more convinced that theyre an alien species that became stuck here from a crash landing
Except they have similar dna to us. They certainly developed intelligence in a different way to us though, which is awesome.
It just shows how easy any other species could become as intelligent or even more than us. We are not that special. If octopuses could live longer like we did, they would be a force to be reckoned with.
@September Pupper what lol
They might be pretty sure we are the aliens dropped here.
No! Humans are the aliens. We came from Mars and those who knew made us believe we originated here and evolved. But in reality we came here after our own planet died. Octopi are the real kings of this planet back when it was almost completely water. It was as big as Krakens in the stories but we claimed this planet our own and made ourselves believe that we are the only sentient beings.
We are the aliens on this planet.
You can literally see how proud the fella was when he escaped the last one.
Hah. I got out fecker whachu gon' do now? huh
Ya his eye got real big like hell ya
Metaphorical anthromorphism, but it cleared my Scrabble tray.
How do you know, are you an octopus, why are you betraying us pretending to be homan
At my old college campus in one of the science labs they had an octopus and lots of tanks of fish... a friend of mine who had marine biology classes told me that the octopus would escape the tank, go over to the fish tanks and open them up, eat some fish, and then go back to it's tank and close the lid. they thought students were stealing fish so they ran a security camera and caught it in the act. LMAO
I saw a video of an aquarium that had sharks in it, and they kept disappearing and no one could find any dead bodies or figure out where they went. They set up a camera of the aquarium, and I guess they forgot that an octopus shared the same tank. It was a giant octopus, and they actually caught it hunting down and capturing a shark. The octopus ate the entire shark. Mystery solved.
I've heard of that happening, think I might have seen the video. Bloody amazing.
Radical
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😂😂😂
I think anyone who tries to claim this is "abuse" just doesn't understand that this is enrichment for them. For dogs and cats, enrichment is laser pointer or toss a ball or mouse. For birds, perches and toys with things for them to climb, ring bells, work their beaks on, etc. For octopuses, you can't do any of that so give them puzzles to solve and exercise their brains.
Yeah. And, if you ask em there is other content on here which IS abuse. Like, I saw a video of a women eating octopus live. She didn't kill them before hand, either.
@@alonelybatinisolation2746 there was another video where she put a live octopus on a grill and brushed on some marinade or sauce, you can see the poor thing trying to escape
@@ch0nkybirbbean63 Thats fucking sad. I don't understand how somebody elses video got taken down for animal abuse when they killed a cockroach but this is fine.
An escape game is not a puzzle.
Octopus are very intelligent so they most likely enjoyed this
My mom was a biology teacher, and we had an octopus for awhile in her high school classroom. Occasionally we'd come into the classroom in the morning only to find the octopus on the floor in the middle of the room. He was such a little escape artist. Fascinating, beautiful creatures. Thank you.
WAIT WHAT!??!?!? THAT SOUNDS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@thecreature916 He was amazing. He would swim from one side of the tank and get on a rock and change colors, then he swim to the other side of the tank and get on another rock and change colors. He was almost affectionate… He wanted to touch you, and wanted to interact through the glass. He was beautiful. We lost him after hurricane Alicia in Houston when the power went out and the tank failed. But it is an experience I will never forget.
@@KatAdair aww thats sad :(
They can identify people by they faces, I cant believe that since they never encounter people in the wild. Consider how smart they have to be for that its not even in their interest to look at people
Hi Kat. Yes!!!! My marine biology teacher in highschool kept his pet octopus in a huge tank in our room. There were many times he escaped during the night and found by my teacher in the silliest places. I'll never forget it. Soooooo sweet
You can tell when the situation is figured out but the octopus tries to see if the difficult way is the only way before attempted! He/she is weighing the options :o never knew they were so brilliant!
That absolutely floors me. The bridge one would have been over fastest out of all of them if he hadn't been like, "Ugh, I really don't want to go out there. I'm gonna look for a different way."
@@JennyTroutstanding yeah lol, i felt his laziness on a psychological level
@@thisisiampie6946 not laziness but he would be risking his life if he was in the wild. He could be attacked by predators
@@horusdark4343 but thats not a concern for him because he was born captive. He was just looking for any other way than going out of water
@@thisisiampie6946 that doesn't mean he still would protect himself from predators. Its still in his mind
Day 7 of quarantine: okay let's watch octopus trying to escape
Neil zion lol
maybe we're all still in quarantine because we haven't discovered the secret escape tube/bridge?
Sounds about right. Lol
*yes.*
Same over here 😂
Question: Can Rudy see your cameras? Has he figured out that some of the cameras are aligned with the exits?
You know this is great and all but in 1000 years, when the Octopuses are the ones designing the cages, none of this will be amusing.
When we humans cry unfair treatment, they’ll show us these videos.
You do know octopi enjoy brain stimulation right. This is fun for them.
😆
@@dylankersten3383 that what they will be writing with their tentacles, you know humans enjoy brain stimulation
It will be amusing to the octopuses.
I hope Rudy got some nice treats after doing so well!
Hmmmm. What is a treat to an octopus? A little shrimp?
Zero Hedge Not being pickled?
debbie otava - He deserves a dinner at Red Lobster, lol
@@DaffneyDalilah well, their cheddar biscuits ARE pretty spectacular. 😆😆😆
I thought the same thing! Where's his crab treat?
This reminds me of the time this zoo noticed fish constantly missing so wen they installed security cameras they found the octopus was getting out of his tank, strolling over to the fish, eating one, then going back to his tank! 🤯🐙🐟
Try thinking of tht situation in the fishes' POV😱😭
@Hyeonju Lee “SCATTER!”
Seen that same video, they're very intelligent
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sneak 100
What freaks me out is that in the last challenge, he didn't just hit the button by accident or anything. He hit the button, observed what happened a few times, then hit the button and strolled out. Meanwhile, the entire human race struggles with the concept of push/pull doors.
In a few years instead of planet of the apes it’s gonna be planet of the octopi.
Yeah but at least nobody has to stand there and watch people walk through doors a few times to figure it out
@@minkcell7509 Random Octopi event!!!
he didn't even hit the button apart from the first time... they opened the door whenever a tentacle touched the button even slightly, not shitting on the octopus or anything else but it clearly wasn't consciously pushing the button knowing it opened the door whatsoever.
I don’t think the whole human race struggle with a push/pull door
If you give him the same challenges a few days later, does he remember the solution and do them faster?
That's what I wonder as well.
I think he would but there is only one way to be sure.
I think they do indeed remember, at least thats what's been shown. They can also share their knowledge with other octopuses.
Doesnt it seem a little weird he didnt see the hole/tube very fast? Do you think he actually saw it and just wanted to swim around?
@@widowmaker4097 yes, they tend to take a moment for a step back to analyze the situation.
@@widowmaker4097 he was searching for hidden loot before taking the obvious way out
Hi Octolab TV. Can you repeat Rudy's escape challenge same condition few days later so we can compare times and see if memory is present. Great test!
Seconded
Thirded! 😁😁🐙
Fourthed!
fifthed
Sixed!
I believe you entirely when you say he wasn’t stressed, if anything he looked curious but I’m so fascinated by cephalopods that I’d love to know how you can tell when they’re stressed or not. What behaviours do they display differently?
They will change color (dark orange or red), puff up, stand tall on the legs. And swim very fast (whoosh!) I learned all this from their previous uploaded videos.
I don't know if it applies to every kind of stress, but when feeling threatened octopuses will often change colour (specially around their eyes and mouth to make them look bigger and more threatening) and release ink
Aisling Moon and try to be talll boyeee
I imagine by now this little guy probably understands/trusts to some level that he's not being put in dangerous situations. Someone's just putting him in another box with some bullcrap he has to deal with for a few minutes. Who knows? It could be really good for them to be kept mentally active with unusual stimuli, like how dolphins, people, many types of birds, etc. get depressed when things are the same all the time because our brains are so developed.
Jamielol yes! Octopuses in captivity need challenges like these or they will quickly get very bored in their tanks
Ok....did I just see your Octopus peak his eye out of the water and assess the bridge. Then go back to the other side of the tank, and pop his eye out again to look at it from a different perspective - to see farther down the bridge? Wow. Smarty. Then, I’m sure he didn’t do a little dance when he got out of challenge #4 but it kinda looked as if he did...
Dishiest these creatures are like the smartest animals in the world besides humans and dolphins
@@ghostgamingxd7881 also birds,dogs cats and other animals. Did you see the cat that saved his boy the little boy was getting attacked by a dog and the cat runs and body slams the dog the cat Tara saved the boy. All animals are smart.
Jenny Àldrich much smarter than a lot of people give them credit for that’s for sure lol
Jenny Àldrich yes I did
That part was kind of creepy. Weird in a way because it's not something one sees every day. 😂
I love how the “easy” challenge for an octopus would be almost impossible for most other aquatic or land based life.
purple E
Is wish it was a more relaxed oceanic song playing in the background - the current song did my head in
For the 2nd and 3rd challenge it seemed to be more of a question of "do I want to do this?" Meanwhile for the 4th challenge he was initially bothered by the lighting change, he analyzed what happens for the second push, and he knew exactly what to do on his final attempt.
I think he was being more cautious than taking time to figure it out, especially in the first 3. He seemed to be doing the look - retreat - look again - act (with repeats when necessary). He's a smart little cookie!
It’s really interesting how they always stand back and analyze the situation before acting. Very intelligent creatures
nobody:
youtube: wanna watch an octopus escape a cage?
Matthew Sanchez 😂
Yee
I love it’s when people make vids like this so THANK YOU!!!!!!!
That is literally how I stumbled upon this video
I agree
While Rudy seems adorable, please stop training him to enslave the human race. Thank you.
-The Human Race
Enslave? Lmao no? 🤦♀️
Shwag Scoper nO-
@Shwag Scoper hold up-
Shwag Scoper 😂😂😂
people as soft as u should not be allowed on social media. get a grip
Rudy might not have felt stressed, but I sure did watching him lol
@Smileyrie James the gate was manually controlled, so it wouldn't have closed on him don't worry :)
I get a strong impression that, in #2 and #3, he was looking for alternate routes, and in #4 he was alarmed by the lighting change at first, but once he realized there was no immediate danger associated, he went on to study the challenge further. So cool and relatable!
Commenting a year later but I agree he was looking for less stressful ways out it seems
@@Level13Gaming maybe one where the researchers couldn't follow lol
Me: he’s not gonna make it
Music: *intensifies*
Octopus: dramatically peeps head out of the water
Me: 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 yus
Yus
Yus yus
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Me: Escape rooms are dumb.
You: How bout with an octopus?
Me: You have my attention.
You take that back! Escape rooms are awesome.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@dontaskme9047 I will not.
I like the part where he escaped and then put up a poster of Raquel Welch over the hole to fool the warden.
Ha! I lol'd!! 😆
And then he had to crawl through a sewer and take over the world
😂😂😂😂😂
Silly zebra. The poster was there before the hole was dug.
I love how the first time he pressed the button he seemed a little startled, then the second time he seemed to wait and see what it did and by the third time he was completely ready to go through the gate as soon as it opened.
Editing suggestion, background music should be in the background and not that loud unless the octopus is the one playing the music...
Sam Morrow neat idea, see if they can play an instrument.
There isn't really anything else to listen to tho. Octopus doesn't make noise, there's no sound effects going on. In this case you could literally just turn down your sound and not miss anything
agreed. music was way too loud and annoying. other than that, great video.
"Oh this was supposed to be difficult?...I was just exploring around."-Octopus.
"This isn't even my final form!"
Octopuses are incredible animals. Here's a story I heard a while ago:
A research group wanted to study some octopuses, so they laid four traps and baited them with fish. The traps were designed so that they were easy to enter, but nearly impossible to exit. When they came back later to check the traps, three were empty. The fourth had an octopus and the fish from all the other traps.
Wow, that octopus is smart
Sad he didn’t make the fourth one
Yea they aint gonna harm him tho and we would not kno the cool story of him gettin out of 3 other traps. At least they were smart enuf to use different types of traps. I like learning new thing bout em
He sort off did... The goal of the octopus was to eat all the fish, not to not get trapped. If he got all the fish in 1 tank, with him inside that tank... he could eat them all.
Thank you for saying octopuses
I'd love to see the behind the scenes footage of just how you get an octopus to go into the cage in the first place
THe octopus probably enters by himself like an escape room in a mall
Animal activist: this is abuse
Octopus: challenge accepted
another thing is if octopi aren't given stimuli they'll literally die of boredom
I did not know octupus can die of boredom😶
🔒🔒 All higher creatures suffer psychosis at best & die at worst from isolation/ stimulus deprivation: humans, wolves, coyotes, sled dogs (samoyed, husky, malamute, akita), weasels, wolverines, mongoose, raccoons, foxes, dolphins, orcas, sea lions, cockatoos, macaws, parrots, & ravens 🗝🔓
@@magnificentmuttley154 what do you mean?
@@opopkopop1539 As in they can die from the stress boredom can put on the brain.
I wonder what was going on in his head during these
"Humans and their stupid little challenges. I can do this faster, but let's entertain them a little."
Must enslaved humans
my cage is littered with weirdness
🐙 Yawwwn. Enough of your bull****, humans. I do exactly what you want and for what: one lousy snack! First chance I get Im gonna show these humans how it feels to live in this circus 😡
Sigh here we go again🙄
This was TOTALLY awesome! What a smart little one!
AntsCanada???
I mean they are one of the smartest animals
Hi AntsCanada
Oh hi dude
Lmao of course I find AntsCanada in the comments of an octopus escaping a maze 😂, just wanted to say I love your videos man!
Octopus after clearing the levels: I have proven our species are intelligent, now I demand freedom.
Me: **confused as to why this video is in my recommended, but clicks on it anyway** Also me: thoroughly entertained for 10 minutes and 6 seconds
What an amazing octopus he is and so focused on his goals. My favorite part is level 3- the bridge Challenge! Rudy the true master of escape, the Steve McQueen of Octopuses!
Rudy is an amazing creature, and so beautiful and graceful too,,,,, what a lovely animal, spectacular. And I must say, much brighter than I am. As I am a human. And that doesn’t really say much does it!!!!!!
Level 5 (Gladiator): The Octopus must defeat the Mantis Shrimp in its enclosure.
Wat the wat?
J Bac My money is on the Mantis Shrimp!
@@samiam619 Mantis all day!
An average octopus would eviscerate a mantis shrimp. They're too smart and way, way, way, larger. Now a mantis shrimp's punch is the strongest on earth pound for pound. The prob is the octopus would be impenetrable and then strangle or decide numerous ways fo quickly pummel to mantis shrimp to an immediate death.
@@liamg2271 you can see a video on youtube of a mantis shrimp bodying an octopus lol
I get so excited seeing octopuses using their intelligence and solving little puzzles. Everytime I see them complete one I just get so happy, they're so smart!!
Interesting to observe the way he searched each cage in a grid pattern, feeling out its dimensions and irregularities.
I was just telling my boyfriend how smart Rudy is-he found the hidden opening, the tube, the bridge AND he opened the door and my boyfriend goes "yeah they are not good at math though."
WTF LOL
I think it's time to find someone else if he's saying that.
i mean... they prob arent
sounds like the octopus found the solutions faster than him
From the sound of it, neither is he.
I don’t know why, but watching an octopus walking across a bridge towards the camera with his eyes peeking out of the water just made my day. 😂🥰🐙
That clip looked like it could be from godzilla
JRockVR 😂😂😂😂
He looks so cutee
@I gRape Babies troll detected
I loved that part too !
Me [at 3am]: Man, I really need to get some sleep.
RUclips: Wanna see an octopus escape room?
Me: OK well now I'm curious.
Lmao its 3:19 a.m for as I watch
The fact that it knows to escape already shows how smart it is..knows it's contained..analyzes..stays calm and solves the puzzles
ok, hand him my bills and let's see how he gets out of this one!!!
Lmfao
Tankerbell Gaming my homework
Joke
he'll squeese its way out of it hahahahahah
2002 : Panic Room
2019 : Escape Room
2020 : Octopus Escape Room
2022: Every species panics and escapes Earth
Man that second challenge, for a second there when he was flailing in frustration of being trapped he really was Upsetti Spaghetti.
Actually he was exploring options and measuring satey risk of taking a routw je had not seen before. He would have gone a dark red/light black had he een frustrated. Movements like that are very common amung the octopus.
Pretty sure he figured out every puzzle within 20 seconds and then just thought about how to approach these puzzles in the safest way possible.
anyone else think the reason the later challenges took so long was that he was looking for the hidden door from the first challenge? seeing if the human pulled a sneaky on him
Hoomans are like that.
the green light scared her haha you can see her posture before going "Ohh... its just green"
These wonderful creatures are scary clever.
Naomi Morris hi are you the host of
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Naomi Morris Sorry I hope I did not offend you?
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Naomi Morris hi do you have and octopus 🐙 for a pet instead of fish?
That octopus was like “Oh shit the green lights on..now where the hell is that damn trap door?!”
Me: "Ha! I would have escaped in 30 seconds!"
Also me, in literally any video game puzzle:
"Let me spend 30 minutes checking every feature of this room to make sure I'm not missing anything."
And end up opening one of the forbidden chests and miss out on the ultimate weapon anyway because the prerequisite is to have those chests unopened at that point in the game (FFXII)
"Sure I couldd leave, but what if there's a secret in THIS cage? Better do a pattern search of each cage with my tentacles before actually leaving"
@@ambrosewong139 you too huh? That was an awful moment in house...poor hubby.
Rudy wouldn't rage quit on us in co-op Portal 2, cause he gets it. Great dude.
@@ambrosewong139 i hated that, i think in the remake they changed it tho
Thank you for properly testing octopuses' intelligence and not "Oooh, they can squeeze through a hole, so intelligent!"
I already knew they were exceptionally intelligent but before this channel, I've never seen someone try to test them -on their level- and not on the level of a human infant. The same mistake was made with ravens and I think previous researchers should feel ashamed for assuming those animals were so dumb. Octopuses particularly, because if they don't feel challenged, they'll be bored out of their mind and won't bother playing along. Others might only if there's food and that's fine.
The fact that Rudy knew that he was in something with an escape route is amazing, I mean you didn't say to him beforehand, you couldn't, Octopus rock 💖😁
Aside from the final challenge, all of those would be found in nature.
I hope he's rewarded with his favorite snack after all this hard work
Me: **awake at 2:30 am** I need to sleep I have classes tomorrow
RUclips: Wanna see an octopus go through escape rooms?
Me: Lol yeah
I feel called out and I Don't like it
@@aBADAasras I have online lessons
@@aBADAasras not lessons like zoom meetings
No you dont
Before I watched this channel , I thought nothing about octopusses . Now I see them as incognito little geniuses :)
intouch If you see previous videos on this channel, you will find them interesting. They are very smart.
@@LavendarRoses - I have watched the videos -- these little guys are amazing !!!!
I'll have to look for more videos of them they are very smart. I'm new to this channel Rudy is pretty cool.
@retsaM innavoiG I agree with you I could not eat them. We have 3 goats they are silly haha. This octopus is very intelligent I don't know why anyone would eat an octopus and or goats.
Next escape room should be Arnold and at the end of each room is his barrel! That would be a good motive for him to want to leave!
He protecc, he attacc, but most importantly he get the snacc
And is smort
Would love to see how Rudy would react if multiple options are available. Such as one that he has encounters before and one that is easier but new.
Oh, Rudy, well done. Does he get treats after each solved puzzle or that's not how this works?
Technically solving the puzzle is a treat. Octopuses need stimulation like this otherwise it's incredibly cruel
i love how his eyes expand after escaping, its so cute 😍
Aside from being amazing escape artist, I love it how octopus is totally deliberate at what it is doing - it always seems to first investigate a little, then measure pros and cons before coming up with a strategy and going for it. They are so cute and fascinating, I shall not eat them in a salad anymore.
Next video I see: Catching cleaning and cooking an octopus!
Me: No RUclips I think you've got it wrong...
Same
“We made sure to take small interview breaks in between each challenge to make sure Rudy was feeling comfortable. Luckily his clear English communicated how much he loved being in that narrow tube.”
Brandon Robinson lmao, so true
Octopus is wondering when the real freedom begins
It's a pretty easily observable fact that octupuses do, in fact, enjoy being in narrow tubes.
I'm sure an octopus has behavior it exhibits when stressed and they're saying it didnt exhibit those behaviors. Just like how we dont have to talk to dogs to know how they feel. These fucking things are scary smart lol.
And he told us that he never felt stressed throughout his challenges.
The last challenge went like "Ok, I know the door is there, I know I have to be fast and I know there's going to be green. Green bad. Calm down, I can do this."
I know humans who wouldn't have done it in less than 7 minutes.
I would’ve pressed the button and literally tweeted my full weight toward the door, manny injuries would happen.
What a clever octo! Well done Rudy! Loved that he was challenged and seemed very engaged in the escapes! He seemed happy to participate, has to be a little dull to not be exploring the wild ocean floor, I also appreciate that you limit your time with them and release back to the wild, as their time is well, limited tho I love discovering how intelligent these creatures are!
Luckily you didn’t add the music during his effort to escape, otherwise he would have felt stressed.
It was really fascinating to see Rudy propel himself through the tube!
How did you get him in the cage in the first place?
Probably wasn't hard.
Octopus like cramped spaces anyway, just throw some food in there.
@@skullsquad900 haha the way you said that was funny. :)
Wonder how Manny would cope with the same tests, are all Octopus's equal, or can can you get a very smart one with a higher IQ?
Cephalopods are so smart. I live watching them do things like solve puzzles or change colors/shape to suit their needs. It's one of the reasons I have decided I will never eat them.
So this is where dory's friend undergo his training. 🤔
Lmao
Editor: Hey look a bunch of screen transitions! I wonder if I can put them all in one video?
just gotta wait for the worst imaginable music to upload first.
I loved the way he was already at the door in the last challenge! And yes, would love to see it repeated as suggested by some other viewers! I bet he will be racing through his obstacle course with the greatest of ease! Lol!
I love the reaction it had when the lighting changed. Like, he saw the door but he seemed more interested in knowing what was making the color change! With perhaps a bit of surprise at the fact.
RUclips: WANNA watch an octopus doing an escape room?
1.3 million people: *iNTeResTiNg*
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Hi. Thank you again for another octopus enrichment puzzle. These are sooo much funny to watch and he looks like he’s enjoying the fun, too.
Now why would anybody want to eat such a fun little guy?!
And octopus doesn't even taste good! Everyone I knew who tried it hated it!
I've actually vowed to never eat Octopus again, because I just love them, but they are incredibly delicious. So I'd have to disagree, maybe where you tried them, they weren't prepared right? But that's ok, it's probably better you continue to not like the taste. I wish I didn't. ;)
Agreed. They are quite clearly sentient and sapient, though the form this takes is quite alien yet familiar. They also appear to be on equal footing with Dolphins, Crows, and Humans in terms of intellectual capacity, but have dexterity that is equal to if not greater than humans.
Same with all animals...
that can be said about any animal
notice he inspects every inch of the cage just to make sure there isn't a gap he can fit his beak through(the only limitation for a octopuses ability to fit through things) before trying the puzzle.
Octopus:are notorious escape expert
Bank robbers:teach me sensei
Thumbs up if you need an octopus to find your keys in the morning!
Lol keys in the morning? I need an Octopus to find my glasses every hour!
Considering what I know about octopus the odds of them helping you out are high but the odds of them dicking around for 15 minutes just to mess with you are you even higher
If you have an octopus in your house (....hmmmm...) check their tank...they probably TOOK the keys.!
@@macforme ...and the glasses😎
@@joycedavis9996 Definitely. I think they are pranksters.
You could see he really figured it out when he pushed the button for the third time. Love these animals!
In the last challenge , he actually seemed more interested in the changing of the light's color than the opening of the door...and retreated to the corner to determine if that change was threat of some kind - perhaps. After a while , he was bored of the changing light and headed out the door. This was REEEEALLY cool to watch - thanks for sharing this !!