It's not only the shell. It was not mentioned in the video, but cephalopods without a shell have very short lifespans, 1 to 5 years or so, which is unique for an intelligent creature. While more "dumb" and primitive armored cephalopods (nautiluses) live more than 20 years.
Having done a lot of diving - I can say that the octopus is an absolute marvel to encounter. Some (mostly the younger ones) are ... So curious. At first it's like "WOW! U THREAT?!" once it establishes that you are not, it's like "Eeer ... What are you then? I've never seen one of you around before." and there begins the act of mutual curiosity :3. You slowly reach with a finger, it sends a tentacle ... you both touch, sometimes they get frightened and clamp your entire hand, flashing black before letting go, but not swimming away. They are playful, find a shiny pebble, hand it to the octopus, it'll take it, check if it can be eaten ... discard it ... then a few sec after send a tentacle back to the pebble out of curiosity as to "why did he give me this pebble ... gotta check again for anything special". They really hold a very special place in my heart, it's not everyday that two species get curious about one another and attempt mutual understanding :)
Your content is so high quality! Congrats! I loved the Netflix documentary "Octopus teacher", cried at the end. These animals are amazing, more than we usually think!
I worked with a marine biologist studying cephalopods. He had one big tank for octopuses and one for crabs, their favorite food. One morning he came in and found that one of his octopuses had pushed the lid open on his tank, crossed the floor and climbed into the crab tank. Soon it became a common occurrence. He decided to give the octopus a mild shock when he found it in the crab tank to deter it. Within days he came in and found the octopus had still gone to the crab tank, eaten it's fill, but then climbed back to its own tank to avoid the shock. They are amazing animals.
I also recall a story of someone working at an aquarium, that gave its resident octopus its meal of shrimp. The person was working at their desk, when suddenly a shrimp hit them on the head. The octopus had escaped its tank and thrown it at them, solely because one of the shrimp it had been fed had gone bad!
Right; planning in anticipation of future states of the world is something some categories of people are unable to do ... and require special accommodations (and get mad if you don't give them). Sad, ey?
Technically, the one who are intelligent will be able to survive outside the comfort zone. If you are stupid and leave your comfort zone you are still gonna die. lmao. It'll probably be 1 of your 10 kids that survives due to intelligence and carry on that genes.
if this was a good video, it will mention if the octopus have some vestigial DNA to form a shell to allow she tell us the story about losing the shell.
Well... one could argue the Octopus is a social animal since it has to navigate all 8 of its legs that each individually have their own minor free-will. Basically, from the Octopuses perspective, it might be like have 8 dogs on leashes that it is trying to keep together haha.
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Exam in 4 hours, have I studied? No. Have I learned about how octopuses are possibly the first intelligent being? Yes. Am I happy with my productivity? Hell mother f’ing yes.
They really hold a very special place in my heart, it's not everyday that two species get curious about one another and attempt mutual understanding :)
I hope there is an updated version made. Octopuses and squid are now known not to be colorblind but just as their intelligence evolved differently than chordates their color vision is completely different. They only have a single type of photodetector and the fact that lenses are achromatic and have non-circular pupils and their visual system is much more complicated than ours so as to be able to extract color diffraction around the edge of the pupil and the achromatic distortions caused by lenses.
Did you see that there is new(ish) research that cephalopods produce much more microRNA than most species outside of mammals. We think there is a correlation between making microRNA and being able to learn.
The second sentence made me think of the cartoon by The Oatmeal about the mantis shrimp, with its 16 primary colors to our 3. And every video on cephalopod intelligence confirms my belief that people expecting aliens to be bipedal vertebrates with a head and 4 limbs...might not see them coming. 👽
ruclips.net/video/J-uGeZDOUXI/видео.html Allah all mighty says in the Qur'an: Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things? meaning, `We will show them Our evidence and proof that the Qur'an is true and has indeed been sent down from Allah to the Messenger of Allah, through external signs, فِي الْآفَاق (in the universe),' such as conquests and the advent of Islam over various regions and over all other religions.
the idea that another animal from this planet evolves to a point where we could talk back and forth with each other would be amazing. just imagine an Octopus walking biside a human on the street
@@donnymartn The word itself is quite simple. “Extra” means outside of, and “terrestrial” means the Earth. Add that together, and it means something from outside of our Earth
Hey, I just had a thought about octopuses and intelligence being social: Octopuses may be social--internally. If their arms have semi-independent cognition, then an octopus mind might be more like a council or group mind than a unitary self. As I understand it, neuroscience is revealing that humans are not exactly unitary selves either. But for us the "multiple selves" are subconscious, more or less as portrayed in "Inside Out." But if an octopus' "sense of self" is somewhat plural, being localized to some degree in the arms, being an octopus might "feel" more like being a vessel with a mind-linked crew than being "a person" as we perceive it. Thus, a form of social interaction and consensus-building would be happening for an octopus at all times. That might explain why they are able to interact socially and play with humans even though they don't seem to have social structure among their own kind. Anyway, it's just a thought. :)
This is a very Interesting line of reasoning... Actually this would also explain their intelligence. A single ant has almost no Intelligence but an entire an colony is very intelligent undertaking very complex tasks.
I was thinking about that too. An interesting thought to consider is that in a way, we too have multiple brains. Though the left and right brain in our body are normally physically connected, it is possible to sever those connections, which was something that used to be done to treat epilepsy. What's so interesting is that in experiments with people who have had thier left and right brain severed from each other, there seems to be some level of separate thinking there.
Exactly. I'm actually vegan but i stopped eating octopuses like 25years ago when my grandparents brought me to fish them. The sounds, the suffering, the continuos tries to escapes everywhere hit me so hard even as a child that i couldnt fish or eat them anymore. Their ability to hide when i was going underwater, to disappear in front of my eyes, to watch me and interact with me! I was amazed, couldnt stop watching them underwater. They were the first animal to grab my attention, curiosity and definitely teach me something. Many others came in the time, but they were the ones who changed me inside and started my evolution.
Octopus: I lost my shell 140 mil years ago Nature: We gave you camouflage, texture-camouflage, shape-shifting abilities, and the ability to squeeze into any rock. Octopus: ok then.
They are certainly amazing, but not necessarily the most amazing. The diversity of life on this planet of ours is simply awe inspiring, with creatures that defy all the odds and live in the most inhospitable places you can imagine. When it comes to understanding nature, we have barely scratched the surface.
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Ever since I was 8 years old, I've wanted to be a marine biologist. I would always wonder about all these amazing creatures that are found in the ocean... My parents wouldn't let me have my own phone, so I would ask them if I could watch a video on their phone about sharks and dolphins and all marine animals I could think of. My cousin is currently in university studying to become a marine biologist, and she lives on the opposite side of the world from where I do, yet every night, we talk about these mysteries of the ocean through messages. Although I am still in school and still have many years of school and high school, I still want to be a marine biologist. These videos of the ocean makes me even more curios! Thank you for sharing this information.
Marine biologists are some of the best people. I met one when I was in high school field trip. He was a person who knew a lot about how nervous system of octopus works and he had a huge collection of octopus inks. I loved asking him questions. I wish you the best to become a marine biologist.
I was really captivated by that. As a biologist, I've always been incredibly interested in octopuses. This has just raised my fascination to a whole new level.
That octopus carrying the two coconut halves like walking with groceries was the best thing ever. “ Do-do-do-do-do. Off to do something fun” 😆 They’re so cute 🧡
Coconut halves will always remind me of that "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" movie. You know, since they were clopping coconut halves together to make it sound like they were riding horses. I just bet the octopus saw that movie! 😀😀
One of the most amazing species of Octopus is the Mimic Octopus, it not only uses it's shape changing skin and camouflage to hide but also imitates other sea life both as a way to escape predators (when being chased by a damselfish it'll make itself look like a banded sea snake, which is a damsel fish predator) but also to hunt (imitating a crab to draw in another crab). The list of animals it's been observed to imitate is quite long (Jelly Fish, Lionfish, Sea Snakes, Zebra Sole, Flatfish, Giant Crab, Sea Horses ect) it has also been recorded imitating at least two species we don't know about (the same shape were recorded in separate locations being used by different individuals).
Mimics are fascinating, I believe they've been observed mimicking about 30 different animals and they seem to use each one for a specific purpose like the two examples you gave
Imagine you're an octopus, scared of everything, then suddenly a land creature (human) dives down underwater, you try to keep your distance, but the land creature spots you. You are interested because you do not sence fear. The land creature starts to pet you, calls you beautiful, and you feel a connection, you bush. Then later you find out that same land creature was swimming around calling other sea creatures beautiful, saying the same things to others, octo has been played, and now heart broken.
14:06 Play certainly can be necessary for survival at least in the long term. What "Play" really is, is a state of exploratory activity you could describe as "R&D" (Research & Development) that will help you develop new methods and practice them. It has no bearing your immediate survivability - but can surely be the deciding factor in which species goes extinct and which doesn't in the long term. I always found it really very simple minded to view or define "play" as something done simply for enjoyment. We might engage in it in our own minds simply because we enjoy it. But the reason we enjoy it is because we evolve to enjoy engaging in things that brings us utility and increased chances of survival. The inherent drive we have to engage in play is clearly a pretty clear cut case of evolutionary psychology. Learning to work as a group and size up your tribe when engaging in it is surely a great benefit for social/tribal species. But playing with yourself, as it were, my exploring in what way you might be able to manipulate a buoyant object in the water is information you now have which might very well come into very good use.
“But in their arms, which can smell and taste, and even think” “So, what do you think, arm number 6?” “I agree with arm number 2” “Alright, we’ll go with arm number 2’s plan”
Well, a human brain also comprises of 2 hemispheres which are synchronized and in many cases both process same data. How often do you guys literally ask your left (right) hemisphere ? Look up voting mechanisms in automatic control systems that feature modular redundancy : oftentimes it's just stupid comparators that compare outputs of the redundant modules to each other and then to some threshold values. There might be a circuit that calculates, let say, a derivative, of the outputs, compares to the preset mathematical model and votes out the module whose data is considered bullshit. But that's it : just a dumb digital circuit, no formal thinking involved, you just have the ultimate decision at an instant. I assume we don't even recognize there could be some collective decision-making within our own brain, we just have the end results. Disclaimer : I am not a biologist, just speculating.
I can genuinely say I have never been more astounded by another being on this planet. The evolution of this beautiful creature is literally out of this world. This video left such an imprint on me that being able to "pet," play, handle, or be in close graces of this animal are on my life's bucketlist for sure. Being apart of research and doing a 180 degree career change may be in my future.
This channel is amazing! I found it about 4hrs ago and I haven't been able to turn it off. I'm in the vortex of a rabbit hole. 😂 this episode was amazing, no lie. If you haven't seen the one on carnivorous plants yet, check it out.. very informative and they actually make it easy to understand, for a person like me to understand. I'm definitely showing my children the videos!
I have always quiet epicure of your videos. Now, I have to break my silence to express to you my greatest admiration and gratefulness for the creation of these contents. Of a few contributing factors your videos have probably been the major reason for me to develop a free time interest in biology/zoology. I’ve watched several Insane Biologies and my jaw kept dropping upon the magnificent details of some creatures. You made me grow a fascination for so many animals in turn! The quality of your videos is a blessing and gets the best out of RUclips: entertainment and education in one. Your soothing voice, background music, motion pictures, cuts, structure of the videos and contents make you my favourite RUclipsr and an inspiration to learn! I really hope you come across this comment and can understand how much appreciated your is. I wish you all the best!
My favorite creature ever. I was on a crab ship in Russia. I was the green horn so I had to empty out the pots. I was also making hooch quietly because it was forbidden (it was lighting in a cup) so I could swap liquor with the chef for him making me private meals. One day there was an octopus in a crab pot. I tossed it a live well. Came back once everyone was off the deck. Was gonna take it to the chef. it softly wrapped itself around my arm and I felt like I could see the fear in its eyes. I couldn't do it. I took it over to the side of the ship, held it over. It looked down, looked back at me, let go of my arm, and worked its way down the side of the ship until it got to the water. AMAZING CREATURES!
wow what an interesting story to read! You are a natural story teller, thank you so much. I remember once in Alaska when i was on the family fishing boat we caught a shark in a crab trap and I could tell how scared it was. we let it go of course but I’m surprised people think sharks are so dangerous still. It was so scared of humans!
@@crypticshadows well because when they arent scared we are scared on a 1 on 1 experience lol.Think of it like humans.Even the most cruel human being will probably shiver and revert to please dont kill me and cry mode when you get them to a corner but it still doesnt change that there is a monster within that shell. Im not saying all animals are supposed to be monsters no but i hope you see my point . To pity any living being at its lowest point is basically given. You see if its actually friendly when it can kill you but chooses not to
Human: “octopuses inhabited the earth before humans” Also human: * calls octopus “alien” * Octopus: “these aliens got way too comfortable in MY house” 🤔
The word alien actually doesn't have to do with space. It's used to describe something that is from another country. The word has been retrofitted to instead mean from another origin in modern times. And even more bastardized to just being used as a synonym to different. It just managed to stick to the depiction of little green guys because Americans love to eat what ever we're given.
This is a great video. And just an amazing channel in general. I love every part of science as it encompasses and represents our own inate curiosity as humans. And when it comes to biology I am obsessed. The life we are surrounded by is incredible, and that alone is a reason to live.
I’d assume it has some correlation to the legend of the Kraken.. A massive octopus from around Scandinavia that would attack sailors in the area. Similar to how owls are often perceived as these wise and intelligent birds, when in actuality they’re quite hostile and violent.
200 milliseconds is 1/5 of a second. One thousand and one - five syllables. 1/5 of that is one syllable. You seriously can't blink your eye as fast as you can say "one" or "thou" etc.? I doubt.
SAME! i have always been so sure, since very little, that I wanted to be a marine biologist. once i was faced with the "choosing career" year, I thought I needed something that would gimme chance to make money so I chose something else. I wish I had studied biology! LADS, FOLLOW YOUR INSIDE CHILD!
One of my all time favorite animals, so intelligent and weird. Think it was on a david Attenborough documentary where an octopus had camouflaged itself in shells because a small shark was trying to find it. When it finally did the octopus choked him out by sticking an arm through it's gills, that is an insane level of intelligence.
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@@kbxbrdr What’s confused you? Human toxicity has ruined our planet. Our view of animals has decimated species. We are apart of the animal kingdom; not above it.
Life is diverse for sure but humans are lonely. We’re the last of our family branch ( if you exclude chimps and orangutans). Think about it this way. If homosapiens coexisted with homoerectus, homohabilis, Neanderthals etc. Maybe we wouldn’t feel as lonely but hey here we are homosapiens occupying the earth with no direct relatives. I believe our existential crisis is justified
Excellent. One minor point that I can add is that when comparing the number of neurons between different animals, a better number is to compare the number of neurons divided by the body weight. More body cells requires more neurons to control. However, I am sure that there are significant differences between this ratio for land versus water animals. Thank you for this wonderful video.
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I'm glad this video got the views it deserves, the content on this channel is some of the most informative and best presented stuff online. Thank you for making this free to watch, and keep up the great work.
I think cephalopod intelligence is “hard wired”. An octopus has a very short lifespan, as little as 18 months, and has to learn everything from the moment it hatches completely on its own. Its mother died before it emerged from the egg, so it is born an orphan. This has huge implications, because despite being intelligent it has no “mentor” to learn from. It’s also a mollusk, so in a way it’s a slug with awesome superpowers. They’re fascinating animals.
What is the reason they don't get old ? With more life time they would surpass us in a 1000 years. And I heared that their next evolution jump is gonna be to move onto land and use their arms to navigate the trees
Interesting video. I liked learning how they physically change colour so quickly. Fascinating. ❤ I only wished it was longer and more in depth. Perhaps a sequel in the future? 😊 Thanks for uploading!
@@myguykaikai9215 No really, everywhere on youtube I read this "huurr, if school was like this I would pay attention". I remember how classes were, and literally was about 4-5 "nerds" would get involved with the class while the others would chitchat. "I would pay attention if was like that", no, you wouldn't because you already didn't when had the opportunity.
I doubt listening was the problem. Actually regurgitating it through a time-pressured assessment is. Then again, I managed to do pretty well early in high school just by listening in class, with minimal study.
It must feel damn awesome to be one of these guys. I mean, imagine being a shape-shifting, eight-armed genius with your brain spread throughout your entire body, able to feel the things you're thinking about. Besides worrying about the occasional shark or 4-star restaurant, I wouldn't half mind being an octopus.
@@alantremonti1381 humans, man. We transcend the definition of apex predators. We get all scared when spiders and snakes show up and all that crap, but we forget how much we terrify the other animals on Earth. Another imagination scenario; you are a simple animal, living a simple life of foraging, but every step you take is shadowed by the deadly threat of the ever-present, hairless primates that use their horrifying magic to consume everything in their path, bringing the trees themselves down in their wake. Hunted, pursued, and pushed to the very limits of your environment, you live in constant fear that one day, you will see one, or two, or three, with the barrels of their deadly weapons pointed in your direction; or more likely not even see one, just die instantly to an unseen trap. Terrifying creatures we are.
My favorite part is "how could a creature evolve so differently from humans?" The answers simple evolution doesnt have a set path it's just testing until the test survives long enough to be added to the patch update.
ruclips.net/video/J-uGeZDOUXI/видео.html Allah all mighty says in the Qur'an: Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things? meaning, `We will show them Our evidence and proof that the Qur'an is true and has indeed been sent down from Allah to the Messenger of Allah, through external signs, فِي الْآفَاق (in the universe),' such as conquests and the advent of Islam over various regions and over all other religions.
Humans did not evolve from an animal. That's such a silly way of thinking. We We're Fearfully and wonderfully made!!! We were made in the image and likeness of God! Not an animal.
How do we even imagine an octopus "subjective experience", when its intelligence seems almost more like a collective cooperation with the arms rather than a "top-down" dictatorship (as our brains are, apart from the neurons in our hearts)? Imagine being "the head" of an octopus, sometimes dragged along by the autonomy of your arms. Or imagine being "the arm", dedicating your whole existance to the benefit of the other 7 arms and the head. We cant even begin to imagine the subjective experience of such an organism.
octopuses: "we've been on earth way before even sharks existed" humans: "octopuses look like they are not from earth" octopuses: "the arrogance of these bipedal land fishes is going to be their doom"
@@JosueLopez-kk9us I do speak Spanish actually, I’m just not as confident with it as I am with English 😂, like I have no American accent when I speak Spanish thankfully.
Octopus: Coming out of my shell and I've been doing just fine Gotta gotta evolve because I want it all I played with a fish how did I end up like this? It was only a fish It was only a fish! Now I think with my feet and it's crawling on land I can look like a rock and now it's got hands? Now shes stroking my head now She takes off the lid now let me gooo
@@sumarbrander3354 We are not born knowing how to hunt. Just as no one is born knowing how to make fire. It is impressive how our collective of ideas has been added to and passed down for 100,000+ years. At the end of the day we are animals that eventually learned how to communicate more efficiently than every other animal. We chose to become more complex it wasn’t due to evolution.
@@realscience yes I have noticed, you could ask for likes, comments and subscribes in your videos a bit more. People won’t mind and it will probably help significantly
@@realscience yes, it's been prioritizing short-length videos, memes and stuff from years ago😂 but this video is indeed really well produced. Congrats!
If an octopus's legs have a mind of their own then the octopus already has a group of friends to talk to... When I do it I get called weird and put on medications.
@@brianhsly sometimes it feels that way. I'll know a coffee table is in the middle of the room but for some reason, my shin will be like "Hey, let's go pick a fight with that thing over there." and the rest of the leg follows.... The shin always loses against the table, but it never learns.
@@speakstheobvious5769 just don't get ahead of yourself...I do on this...internet...web..lol Your heart is real. You are true. You aren't an echo. Its not your job to make people realize that but keep being who you are and it'll all flow into place eventually. Self care. Recycle ♻️ don't let it recycle you
@@rydersonthestorm7175 I slept in classes my entire life, lucky me I still got good grades but still in my entire life had only a handful of good teachers.
Because regular schools aren't perfect. I don't mean that Schooling system can necessarily brainwash brighter students or its not beneficial for those who can't think and work independently. But, there's exaggeration of so many unnecessary things & so much editing & omission of necessary/important things. So much misinformation also in history, science, economics, etc. Masses are trained to become an obedient slave of the system. Infact they have an agenda to indoctrinate people from childhood into what's right and what's not, what to believe and what to reject. You can either see any of it -: Watch Part - 20 ruclips.net/p/PLpbPLDjlfpaCfGPueEbkHWdwxlVXmJeug or A Scientist/Ph.D. is also surprised with the missing information about Golden Ratio everywhere in Nature. ruclips.net/video/pETLuGaL4T4/видео.html
it is truly eye opening to realize how many ways life has developed on just our planet. Makes you realize how resilient it is, and how unlikely it is to have only happened here.
As far as science goes it's more of the starting point in life than the conditions on other planets that are the limiting factor. If life originated on other planets as the same way on earth it would reflect that planet conditions just like ours. I'm excited to see if there is any actual life that could potentially be discovered on Venus in the coming years.
@@MareHazyDawn Mars is even more likely (I work in astrobiology). We might even have discovered life already back in the viking LR test. And the early mars was extremely similar to early earth. Imo the limiting factor really is the development of multicellular life
@@d_ruggs yup. We need to bring back material from mars. Until then, we will not know anything. I really think, that there is still life in the martian regolith
Amazingly educational video that actually taught me something about octopus intelligence while heavily referencing scientific articles and entertaining me: subscribed.
Octopuses had a great civilization, but they needed too much resources and made a great extinction in the past, the rest of the society decided to live like the old wild relatives, and then, humans evolved to make the same mistake
they also need longer life spans because they live too short to pass down their knowledge to their young and maybe then the octopus could begin to evolve its intelligence even more
@@blazingtrs6348 that sentence is very true. Imagine if they lived for 50 years, and their life overlapped that of their off spring. The possibilities are endless!!
Imagine octopuses evolve to go on land millions of years later and find our ancient buildings and projects. The explore it then start to restore it and make a new life before the sun devours them whole.
@@ok1025 true. The way submersion and the plates work…. They might already be under Earths crust. On a geological time scale, creatures moving their main habitat from aquatic to terrestrial is over millions of years
They are really impressing creatures. I love watching them. They are so unique with the ability to change in every colour or any structure,and this very fast. It is remarkable what they can do. Cool video 😅😅😅
It's kinda weird how such an informative and in depth video just straight up calls them colorblind and doesn't even mention their weird pupils. Some scientists think that utilize chromatic aberration and focus on different wave lengths to see different colors
Kinda surprised the whole dna and rna regulating in their neurons didnt get mentioned. Octupi can probably finely tune their brain chemistry and optimising the fuck out of it. Iirc they might even be capable of rewriting their own dna to some extent, which might help explain why they are everywhere and so many variations Like wtf, these creatures are mind-boggling complex
I'm absolutely blown away by the insane level of research and production put into this video! We're so lucky to be living in an era where such easy access to information exists
The cinematography was astounding! I had the privilege of running into one while scuba diving in the Caribbean once. They truly are, so incredibly amazing!!
I gotta go to work in 4hours and I'm over here learning about octopuses at 2 AM
Have done the same, many times too🙄. Usually under doona cover so as 2 not wake my partner, 🤗
same
We all are
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What in the world is a doona ? You mean, Dora The Explorer ?
- ''So how did you get into Harvard?''
- ''I lost my shell bro''
"You gained intelligence?"
octopus: "yes"
"What did it cost?"
octopus: "shell"
gonna be the first reply just because i can
"But then I found this styrofoam Big Mac container from 1989, so I'm good now."
It's not only the shell. It was not mentioned in the video, but cephalopods without a shell have very short lifespans, 1 to 5 years or so, which is unique for an intelligent creature. While more "dumb" and primitive armored cephalopods (nautiluses) live more than 20 years.
Too bad you're not old enough to remember W.C. Fields or Jackie Gleason. You may have quoted them speaking of a pittance as a "mere bag of shells".
Why am I reading this like Thanos and lil Gamora from Infinity War Lol
Having done a lot of diving - I can say that the octopus is an absolute marvel to encounter. Some (mostly the younger ones) are ... So curious. At first it's like "WOW! U THREAT?!" once it establishes that you are not, it's like "Eeer ... What are you then? I've never seen one of you around before." and there begins the act of mutual curiosity :3. You slowly reach with a finger, it sends a tentacle ... you both touch, sometimes they get frightened and clamp your entire hand, flashing black before letting go, but not swimming away. They are playful, find a shiny pebble, hand it to the octopus, it'll take it, check if it can be eaten ... discard it ... then a few sec after send a tentacle back to the pebble out of curiosity as to "why did he give me this pebble ... gotta check again for anything special". They really hold a very special place in my heart, it's not everyday that two species get curious about one another and attempt mutual understanding :)
Thanks for writing that. That was really beautiful and interesting to read.
@@abesapien9930 100%!
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Agreed. Always loved encountering them in my diving days.
You just added something to my bucket list!
Your content is so high quality! Congrats! I loved the Netflix documentary "Octopus teacher", cried at the end. These animals are amazing, more than we usually think!
I worked with a marine biologist studying cephalopods. He had one big tank for octopuses and one for crabs, their favorite food. One morning he came in and found that one of his octopuses had pushed the lid open on his tank, crossed the floor and climbed into the crab tank. Soon it became a common occurrence. He decided to give the octopus a mild shock when he found it in the crab tank to deter it. Within days he came in and found the octopus had still gone to the crab tank, eaten it's fill, but then climbed back to its own tank to avoid the shock.
They are amazing animals.
LOL
I also recall a story of someone working at an aquarium, that gave its resident octopus its meal of shrimp. The person was working at their desk, when suddenly a shrimp hit them on the head. The octopus had escaped its tank and thrown it at them, solely because one of the shrimp it had been fed had gone bad!
@@Origamigryphon I'm loving this story, and it sounds completely plausible based on my experiences with cephalopods.
Right; planning in anticipation of future states of the world is something some categories of people are unable to do ... and require special accommodations (and get mad if you don't give them). Sad, ey?
I'm going to have nightmares now.
> ditched the shell
> evolved intelligence
So this is what it means to leave your comfort zone
Epic observation
There's a lesson here.
quite literally. the only way to evolve is to leave or change the environment you're adapted to.
Im stuck
Technically, the one who are intelligent will be able to survive outside the comfort zone. If you are stupid and leave your comfort zone you are still gonna die. lmao. It'll probably be 1 of your 10 kids that survives due to intelligence and carry on that genes.
"Lose your shell, and gain enlightenment" -Octopus
Wow!! That’s very profound
if this was a good video, it will mention if the octopus have some vestigial DNA to form a shell to allow she tell us the story about losing the shell.
That’s deep on so many levels
Let the Humans make the skulls.
-Octos
The snails could never.
This is some crazyy shit to watch at 2am, im absolutely mind blown
time well spent
Such content is incredibly underappreciated
I agree.
Exactly, how does this only have 7000 views
thank you! It means a lot
@@realscience could you tell me what violin music plays in the beginning? Also, for future videos could you put all the music you use in description?
@@artiomvas idk if it was edited but the music was clearly in the description...
Can we just appreciate the fact that there isn’t a single ad in this whole video?
You're right, also there is an embedded ad for the curiosity stream.
I dunno. Kinda want an Octopus now.
i never have ads -> I use adblock
Couldn't tell because I gotta flex my RUclips Red
Adblock - ftw
The next time someone tells you, you need to get out of your shell; they’re offering you a path to evolution, intelligence and enlightenment.
@John Byars lol
@John Byars that sucks
@John Byars 2 to 4 years of lifespan sucks
@John Byars accept*
My teacher tells us that
Well... one could argue the Octopus is a social animal since it has to navigate all 8 of its legs that each individually have their own minor free-will. Basically, from the Octopuses perspective, it might be like have 8 dogs on leashes that it is trying to keep together haha.
changing colors and body textures is incredible but what amazes me even more is the speed at which the octopus does it…it’s freakin insane man
It’s looks CGI. Absolutely crazy. The world is insane
@@14kiddd I ask around in the whole comment-section,
hoping to spread Science, Education and Fun:
Anyone want some Recommendations? Some science-channel-names to check out?
@@loturzelrestaurant Meeeeeee
@@pokeypoker6208 Cool.
Check out Tier Zoo, Oversimplified, Sci Man Dan, Joe Scott and Veritasium and then come back to me to tell me how you liked them and to tell me if you want more.
Cause trust me: I gooot more.
@@loturzelrestaurant may I also suggest Weird History? I love that channel for all my weird history intrigue and I love telling more people to watch them :)
just how intelegent are they?
octo : _wearing coconut shell while walking like a model_
lol
Saw this comment right as it happened
😂😂😂😂I saw the attitude in that walk
It was definitely selling the model strut
and how do we celebrate them? we boil them.
Exam in 4 hours, have I studied? No. Have I learned about how octopuses are possibly the first intelligent being? Yes. Am I happy with my productivity? Hell mother f’ing yes.
did you pass the exams?
@@eldritchskye2608 i hope he did
You are right. As I mentioned we should by seeing this wonderfull creature reconsider the intelligenge of our own species.
@@eldritchskye2608 Aced 😎
Intelligence came a long ,long,long,long time ago . Nothing new under the sun ! HalleluiYAH!
They really hold a very special place in my heart, it's not everyday that two species get curious about one another and attempt mutual understanding :)
Octopus: holds out tenticle
Diver: shakes tentacle
Octopus: ...Damn these four legged seals are smart
Wow dude
Humans: we’ve invented colour changing materials
Octopuses: hold our tentacles!
Octopuses don't have tentacles, they have arms.
Sry, would but cant like. The likes are equivalent to the funny drug number
@history history (u r) perfection
I hope there is an updated version made. Octopuses and squid are now known not to be colorblind but just as their intelligence evolved differently than chordates their color vision is completely different. They only have a single type of photodetector and the fact that lenses are achromatic and have non-circular pupils and their visual system is much more complicated than ours so as to be able to extract color diffraction around the edge of the pupil and the achromatic distortions caused by lenses.
Wow! Now I hope there is an updated version too
Did you see that there is new(ish) research that cephalopods produce much more microRNA than most species outside of mammals. We think there is a correlation between making microRNA and being able to learn.
Nature is fking wild, man 🐙
The second sentence made me think of the cartoon by The Oatmeal about the mantis shrimp, with its 16 primary colors to our 3. And every video on cephalopod intelligence confirms my belief that people expecting aliens to be bipedal vertebrates with a head and 4 limbs...might not see them coming. 👽
Octopuses can feel colors?
When you learn something so incredible and interesting that you feel like you need to go tell someone about it, you know you learned something good.
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Allah all mighty says in the Qur'an: Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?
meaning, `We will show them Our evidence and proof that the Qur'an is true and has indeed been sent down from Allah to the Messenger of Allah, through external signs, فِي الْآفَاق (in the universe),' such as conquests and the advent of Islam over various regions and over all other religions.
@@fullhd8721 Um...ok, I don't really know what that's gotta do with octopus.
But then that person does not give a damn and wants to continue gossiping instead, so you have to shut up and go along with their frivolities.
@@fullhd8721 Will you shut up man?
@@fullhd8721 So...octopuses are signs from Allah (blessed be his name and all that...)?
the idea that another animal from this planet evolves to a point where we could talk back and forth with each other would be amazing.
just imagine an Octopus walking biside a human on the street
that’s what extra terrestrials are buddy…
@@donnymartn The word itself is quite simple. “Extra” means outside of, and “terrestrial” means the Earth. Add that together, and it means something from outside of our Earth
I feel like the narrator is going to say "Everything Changed When the Fire Nation Attacked" at any second
Ong 😭😭😭
CanadAnts!
that’s really funny.
HAHAHA!!!
🤣🤣🤣
Hey, I just had a thought about octopuses and intelligence being social: Octopuses may be social--internally. If their arms have semi-independent cognition, then an octopus mind might be more like a council or group mind than a unitary self. As I understand it, neuroscience is revealing that humans are not exactly unitary selves either. But for us the "multiple selves" are subconscious, more or less as portrayed in "Inside Out." But if an octopus' "sense of self" is somewhat plural, being localized to some degree in the arms, being an octopus might "feel" more like being a vessel with a mind-linked crew than being "a person" as we perceive it. Thus, a form of social interaction and consensus-building would be happening for an octopus at all times. That might explain why they are able to interact socially and play with humans even though they don't seem to have social structure among their own kind.
Anyway, it's just a thought. :)
Interesting thank you
This is a very Interesting line of reasoning... Actually this would also explain their intelligence. A single ant has almost no Intelligence but an entire an colony is very intelligent undertaking very complex tasks.
That is such an interesting perspective - amazing concept
Really cool idea
I was thinking about that too. An interesting thought to consider is that in a way, we too have multiple brains. Though the left and right brain in our body are normally physically connected, it is possible to sever those connections, which was something that used to be done to treat epilepsy. What's so interesting is that in experiments with people who have had thier left and right brain severed from each other, there seems to be some level of separate thinking there.
Octopuses: *sophisticatedly evolved to survive this long
Humans: whoa, this animal is amazing! Maybe we should eat it
They also eat each other, at least occasionally.
To be fair, it tastes pretty good
That, and dolphins 😔
Exactly. I'm actually vegan but i stopped eating octopuses like 25years ago when my grandparents brought me to fish them.
The sounds, the suffering, the continuos tries to escapes everywhere hit me so hard even as a child that i couldnt fish or eat them anymore.
Their ability to hide when i was going underwater, to disappear in front of my eyes, to watch me and interact with me!
I was amazed, couldnt stop watching them underwater.
They were the first animal to grab my attention, curiosity and definitely teach me something.
Many others came in the time, but they were the ones who changed me inside and started my evolution.
@@mytubthree I need you to jump into the ocean, with no equipment, and talk to those dolphins for a while. Maybe about an hour or two.
I love how we both appreciate the ocean with not just interest, but a respect that is given to dangerous things, like an orca
Octopus: I lost my shell 140 mil years ago
Nature: We gave you camouflage, texture-camouflage, shape-shifting abilities, and the ability to squeeze into any rock.
Octopus: ok then.
Plus, bring-your-own-shell-to-work days.
Octopus: takes coconut halves everywhere so still has a shell
@Win From Within The only thing your god is responsible for is reversing human intelligence.
@Win From Within Based.
@Win From Within God hired nature as the local manager of earth.
Millions of years from now octopi will be studying why humans destroyed themselves.
*you mean, human octopus hybrids
my sentiments exactly
I just pictured an octopus in a white lab coat looking through a microscope
The plural of octopus is octopuses
They'll be like.... humans only had 4 arms/legs?!
“... as fast as the fastest blink you can do.”
everyone: blinks
*You dont know me...*
ah, dammit...
Lmao yeah
hahahaha yep
I blinked again after seeing this. You got me
This video brilliantly captures their unique and incredible features! Thanks for such an informative and captivating one!
- ''So how did you get into Harvard?''
- ''I lost my shell bro''
Good one😂😂😂
-"I came out of my shell"
haha!
The octopus is the most amazing creature on earth. Just incomprehensible.
Agreed, the truth is that I barely know what I'm going.
They are certainly amazing, but not necessarily the most amazing. The diversity of life on this planet of ours is simply awe inspiring, with creatures that defy all the odds and live in the most inhospitable places you can imagine. When it comes to understanding nature, we have barely scratched the surface.
Monarch Butterflies are pretty cool too. Diversity of life on this rock is always awe inspiring.
Crows too
@@octopus8420 I ask around in the whole comment-section,
hoping to spread Science, Education and Fun:
Anyone want some Recommendations? Some science-channel-names to check out?
Ever since I was 8 years old, I've wanted to be a marine biologist. I would always wonder about all these amazing creatures that are found in the ocean... My parents wouldn't let me have my own phone, so I would ask them if I could watch a video on their phone about sharks and dolphins and all marine animals I could think of. My cousin is currently in university studying to become a marine biologist, and she lives on the opposite side of the world from where I do, yet every night, we talk about these mysteries of the ocean through messages. Although I am still in school and still have many years of school and high school, I still want to be a marine biologist. These videos of the ocean makes me even more curios! Thank you for sharing this information.
Marine biologists are some of the best people. I met one when I was in high school field trip. He was a person who knew a lot about how nervous system of octopus works and he had a huge collection of octopus inks. I loved asking him questions. I wish you the best to become a marine biologist.
Me too! It’s interesting to see someone with such a familier story!
Do it!
I’m in school for marine biology! You should do it too!!!
Live your dream....
I was really captivated by that. As a biologist, I've always been incredibly interested in octopuses. This has just raised my fascination to a whole new level.
That octopus carrying the two coconut halves like walking with groceries was the best thing ever. “ Do-do-do-do-do. Off to do something fun” 😆 They’re so cute 🧡
Coconut halves will always remind me of that "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" movie. You know, since they were clopping coconut halves together to make it sound like they were riding horses. I just bet the octopus saw that movie! 😀😀
One of the most amazing species of Octopus is the Mimic Octopus, it not only uses it's shape changing skin and camouflage to hide but also imitates other sea life both as a way to escape predators (when being chased by a damselfish it'll make itself look like a banded sea snake, which is a damsel fish predator) but also to hunt (imitating a crab to draw in another crab). The list of animals it's been observed to imitate is quite long (Jelly Fish, Lionfish, Sea Snakes, Zebra Sole, Flatfish, Giant Crab, Sea Horses ect) it has also been recorded imitating at least two species we don't know about (the same shape were recorded in separate locations being used by different individuals).
Mimics are fascinating, I believe they've been observed mimicking about 30 different animals and they seem to use each one for a specific purpose like the two examples you gave
How does it know which animal is a predator to a specific species?
@@pratikrawal6519 observation and experience.
I was disappointed she didn't talk about it, one of my favorites
WOW THATS AMAZING
The best video I've seen on RUclips in ages. The amount of work this must have taken.... Loved it
.... all except voice casting. That one was an UTTER FAIL.
@@guff9567 ik this is a joke but its not funny
@@derekbradshaw9040 agreed
@@derekbradshaw9040 nothing funny about that ghastly grating monotonous voice. I had to stop the video it got to be so awful.
You should check out Space Time by PBS.
What a great video, perfect visuals, fluid explanation, not too heavy and not forgiving.
Can we just talk about how the diver playing with the octopus was the most wholesome thing ever
No
He gave it a kiss too!!!!
I totally didn't cry at this part...
Imagine you're an octopus, scared of everything, then suddenly a land creature (human) dives down underwater, you try to keep your distance, but the land creature spots you. You are interested because you do not sence fear. The land creature starts to pet you, calls you beautiful, and you feel a connection, you bush. Then later you find out that same land creature was swimming around calling other sea creatures beautiful, saying the same things to others, octo has been played, and now heart broken.
Time stamp pls??? :)
"as fast as the fastest blink you can do"
*rapid blinking
Haha yessss😂😂
lol me too
Haha this made me bust tf up I read the comment right before she said it lol
i feel called out XD
Lol exactly
This is SO interesting
... unlike the narrator's accent.
@Şahanşah Bnoarg Grate, grate. Drone, drone. Monotonous. Disinterested. Uninformed. Reading from a script.
The octopus also has 3 hearts instead of only one. I think it is a crime to kill and eat them.
@@wolfgangk2824 I thing you’re a hypocrite for saying that but I’m the same, could never eat an octopus 😔
You are SO right
14:06 Play certainly can be necessary for survival at least in the long term.
What "Play" really is, is a state of exploratory activity you could describe as "R&D" (Research & Development) that will help you develop new methods and practice them.
It has no bearing your immediate survivability - but can surely be the deciding factor in which species goes extinct and which doesn't in the long term.
I always found it really very simple minded to view or define "play" as something done simply for enjoyment.
We might engage in it in our own minds simply because we enjoy it.
But the reason we enjoy it is because we evolve to enjoy engaging in things that brings us utility and increased chances of survival.
The inherent drive we have to engage in play is clearly a pretty clear cut case of evolutionary psychology.
Learning to work as a group and size up your tribe when engaging in it is surely a great benefit for social/tribal species.
But playing with yourself, as it were, my exploring in what way you might be able to manipulate a buoyant object in the water is information you now have which might very well come into very good use.
“But in their arms, which can smell and taste, and even think”
“So, what do you think, arm number 6?”
“I agree with arm number 2”
“Alright, we’ll go with arm number 2’s plan”
This is so good.
Well, a human brain also comprises of 2 hemispheres which are synchronized and in many cases both process same data. How often do you guys literally ask your left (right) hemisphere ? Look up voting mechanisms in automatic control systems that feature modular redundancy : oftentimes it's just stupid comparators that compare outputs of the redundant modules to each other and then to some threshold values. There might be a circuit that calculates, let say, a derivative, of the outputs, compares to the preset mathematical model and votes out the module whose data is considered bullshit. But that's it : just a dumb digital circuit, no formal thinking involved, you just have the ultimate decision at an instant. I assume we don't even recognize there could be some collective decision-making within our own brain, we just have the end results. Disclaimer : I am not a biologist, just speculating.
@@romank4905 Good.
Definitely bothered me they kept calling it "arms" and not tentacles.
For a science fiction treatment, google 'jotok'
This channel inspires a sense of wonder about nature in me that I hadn't felt since I was a kid. Thank you so much
Same
I can genuinely say I have never been more astounded by another being on this planet. The evolution of this beautiful creature is literally out of this world. This video left such an imprint on me that being able to "pet," play, handle, or be in close graces of this animal are on my life's bucketlist for sure. Being apart of research and doing a 180 degree career change may be in my future.
This channel is amazing! I found it about 4hrs ago and I haven't been able to turn it off. I'm in the vortex of a rabbit hole. 😂 this episode was amazing, no lie. If you haven't seen the one on carnivorous plants yet, check it out.. very informative and they actually make it easy to understand, for a person like me to understand. I'm definitely showing my children the videos!
I have always quiet epicure of your videos. Now, I have to break my silence to express to you my greatest admiration and gratefulness for the creation of these contents. Of a few contributing factors your videos have probably been the major reason for me to develop a free time interest in biology/zoology. I’ve watched several Insane Biologies and my jaw kept dropping upon the magnificent details of some creatures. You made me grow a fascination for so many animals in turn!
The quality of your videos is a blessing and gets the best out of RUclips: entertainment and education in one. Your soothing voice, background music, motion pictures, cuts, structure of the videos and contents make you my favourite RUclipsr and an inspiration to learn!
I really hope you come across this comment and can understand how much appreciated your is. I wish you all the best!
"Their one of the most intelligent creatures"
Octopus : they're*
Lmao!
🤣😂🤣😂
Lol😂😂
I laughed at this...
10
Man this reminds me of me and my dad watching late night documentaries about anything. Rest In Peace Papa
Rest in peace.
Rest in peace.
Rest in pieces
rip
I'm so sorry for your loss.
My favorite creature ever. I was on a crab ship in Russia. I was the green horn so I had to empty out the pots. I was also making hooch quietly because it was forbidden (it was lighting in a cup) so I could swap liquor with the chef for him making me private meals. One day there was an octopus in a crab pot. I tossed it a live well. Came back once everyone was off the deck. Was gonna take it to the chef. it softly wrapped itself around my arm and I felt like I could see the fear in its eyes. I couldn't do it. I took it over to the side of the ship, held it over. It looked down, looked back at me, let go of my arm, and worked its way down the side of the ship until it got to the water. AMAZING CREATURES!
I'm sure it will never forget your act of kindness :)
You're an amazing creature for recognizing and acting accordingly...
wow what an interesting story to read! You are a natural story teller, thank you so much. I remember once in Alaska when i was on the family fishing boat we caught a shark in a crab trap and I could tell how scared it was. we let it go of course but I’m surprised people think sharks are so dangerous still. It was so scared of humans!
@@crypticshadows well because when they arent scared we are scared on a 1 on 1 experience lol.Think of it like humans.Even the most cruel human being will probably shiver and revert to please dont kill me and cry mode when you get them to a corner but it still doesnt change that there is a monster within that shell. Im not saying all animals are supposed to be monsters no but i hope you see my point . To pity any living being at its lowest point is basically given. You see if its actually friendly when it can kill you but chooses not to
@@ogulcandursun1665 why is that kinda deep
Me: about to go to sleep
RUclips: OCTOPUS!
Got me there 😂
Lol same here😂😂😂
The RUclips algorithm seems to have liked this one.
Sameeee
Literally me lol
Human: “octopuses inhabited the earth before humans”
Also human: * calls octopus “alien” *
Octopus: “these aliens got way too comfortable in MY house” 🤔
Well put, Bruno dos Reis. I like the way you see things. Very well thought out!
OMG! Humans were alien-like all along in Octopus perspective
The word alien actually doesn't have to do with space. It's used to describe something that is from another country. The word has been retrofitted to instead mean from another origin in modern times. And even more bastardized to just being used as a synonym to different. It just managed to stick to the depiction of little green guys because Americans love to eat what ever we're given.
Reminds me of the anime: Suisei no Gargantia. Half the human race evolved themselves into octopi to survive rising sea levels.
Bruno dos reis... Br fazendo palhaçada até em inglês vê se pode kkkk
This is a great video. And just an amazing channel in general. I love every part of science as it encompasses and represents our own inate curiosity as humans. And when it comes to biology I am obsessed. The life we are surrounded by is incredible, and that alone is a reason to live.
I'm rooting for the octopus. Movies like to make them seem like monsters, but they really are very vulnerable...
uh what movies lol???
@@jajajqk3779 not movies but just generally peoplr seem to be terrified of them
@CaliDorko ye i really love his horror i guees you call it
I’d assume it has some correlation to the legend of the Kraken.. A massive octopus from around Scandinavia that would attack sailors in the area. Similar to how owls are often perceived as these wise and intelligent birds, when in actuality they’re quite hostile and violent.
Check out ( my teacher the octopus on Netflix) aan and a wild Octopus became beat friends and I fell I'm love with octopus
Coincidentally my wife and I watched My Octopus Teacher last night. I'm glad to see Real Science cover this. Keep up the good work!
My Octopus Teacher inspired this episode. So good!
@@realscience hello real science, or should I say real engineering
I tell everyone to watch Octopus Teacher , best documentary iv seen in a long time.
I knew it! The whole intro looked so sinilar
Coincidentally? Lol... google Ad’s/ Cookies/ Auto suggest
6:05 'as fast as the fastest blink you can do'
*starts blinking as fast as I can to get an idea >;0
LMAO *also blinks rapidly* :0
You are now blinking manually.
Why did i do this too😂😂😂😭😭
Got a dance audition in an hour and here I am learning about the “insane biology of an octopus “….Wow
AS FAST AS THE FASTEST BLINK YOU CAN DO! Literally everyone blinking as fast as possible, damn thats pretty quick.
EXACTLY
Makes you wonder if you even have free will or if you're just a mindless robot...
Looool literally me
200 milliseconds is 1/5 of a second. One thousand and one - five syllables. 1/5 of that is one syllable. You seriously can't blink your eye as fast as you can say "one" or "thou" etc.? I doubt.
God this makes me wish I could get back to school and pursue marine biology like little me dreamed of.
(realistically there is probably less holding you back than you think)
You can. Turn that wish into a goal.
What I was thinking too lol 😝
Obstacles are only barriers if you think of them as such!
SAME! i have always been so sure, since very little, that I wanted to be a marine biologist. once i was faced with the "choosing career" year, I thought I needed something that would gimme chance to make money so I chose something else.
I wish I had studied biology!
LADS, FOLLOW YOUR INSIDE CHILD!
"no social bonds, not social hierarchy"
Octopus GANG.
Gangbang lol
But cats also has no social hierarchy and solitary animal too. And also equally weird too
Cat = octopus
@@Bos_Meong Cat GANG
Are gangs not social?
Honestly this the best comment I've see on this forsaking platform in a long time.. Thanks for being original
How is it still legal to EAT those creatures?
human like eat
They mad bustin. I be going fishin em out and then fry em and shi. They chewy though
Because they are tasty? Fried Octu is amazing.
people eat dogs
@@worstgamer1162hell, they would eat human too if they could 😂
One of my all time favorite animals, so intelligent and weird. Think it was on a david Attenborough documentary where an octopus had camouflaged itself in shells because a small shark was trying to find it. When it finally did the octopus choked him out by sticking an arm through it's gills, that is an insane level of intelligence.
I ask around in the whole comment-section,
hoping to spread Science, Education and Fun:
Anyone want some Recommendations? Some science-channel-names to check out?
video link?
The Bruce Lee of the sea
@@loturzelrestaurant I looking for some good recipe's for cooking octopus
Its not an animal, its an Octopi. Completely alien species, does not fit in (animal) category. Most people think dolphins and whales are animals too.
We wonder so often about being alone in the universe that we sometimes don't realize how incredibly diverse life is right here at home.
Probably some animals are as sapients as us.
@@rommdan2716 No, not probably. A lot are. The human ego about our place in this world is just toxic.
@@alessaapathy wat
@@kbxbrdr What’s confused you? Human toxicity has ruined our planet. Our view of animals has decimated species. We are apart of the animal kingdom; not above it.
Life is diverse for sure but humans are lonely. We’re the last of our family branch ( if you exclude chimps and orangutans). Think about it this way. If homosapiens coexisted with homoerectus, homohabilis, Neanderthals etc. Maybe we wouldn’t feel as lonely but hey here we are homosapiens occupying the earth with no direct relatives. I believe our existential crisis is justified
Excellent. One minor point that I can add is that when comparing the number of neurons between different animals, a better number is to compare the number of neurons divided by the body weight. More body cells requires more neurons to control. However, I am sure that there are significant differences between this ratio for land versus water animals. Thank you for this wonderful video.
I ask around in the whole comment-section,
hoping to spread Science, Education and Fun:
Anyone want some Recommendations? Some science-channel-names to check out?
Was gonna say of how it is known of how much neurons it has.
@@loturzelrestaurant what channels do you normally recommend?
@@aidanrickord7790 Many. Like Veritasium, Sci Show, Sci Man Dan, Tier Zoo, Joe Scott, Tom Scott and Professor Dave.
Maybe not in that Order.
@@loturzelrestaurant thanks for the recommendations!
These videos are so fun to watch while fucking baked as shit I am learning so much
I am glad to be sharing the planet with such an amazing beautiful creature.
Nah. They are disgusting
Loner
absolute unchad
this is the only possible mollusk species with intelligence we can only get
I'm glad this video got the views it deserves, the content on this channel is some of the most informative and best presented stuff online. Thank you for making this free to watch, and keep up the great work.
I think cephalopod intelligence is “hard wired”. An octopus has a very short lifespan, as little as 18 months, and has to learn everything from the moment it hatches completely on its own.
Its mother died before it emerged from the egg, so it is born an orphan. This has huge implications, because despite being intelligent it has no “mentor” to learn from.
It’s also a mollusk, so in a way it’s a slug with awesome superpowers.
They’re fascinating animals.
What is the reason they don't get old ? With more life time they would surpass us in a 1000 years.
And I heared that their next evolution jump is gonna be to move onto land and use their arms to navigate the trees
@@steviereedeker3314 eh man, no spoilers plz
@@Gurkenpudding 😈😈😈😈he spoiled the next millennium for you💀
Depends on the Octopus really I remember seeing a video about a species that guarded it's eggs for 4.5 years
@@steviereedeker3314 "... move onto land and use their arms to navigate the trees"
Interesting video. I liked learning how they physically change colour so quickly. Fascinating. ❤
I only wished it was longer and more in depth. Perhaps a sequel in the future? 😊
Thanks for uploading!
if they taught stuff like this at school i’d actually listen
Exactly
If only our teachers were this entertaining and thorough
They actually do teach this at school. You just have to be lucky enough to go to the right school and perhaps live in the right country.
No, you wouldnt.
@@myguykaikai9215 No really, everywhere on youtube I read this "huurr, if school was like this I would pay attention".
I remember how classes were, and literally was about 4-5 "nerds" would get involved with the class while the others would chitchat.
"I would pay attention if was like that", no, you wouldn't because you already didn't when had the opportunity.
I doubt listening was the problem. Actually regurgitating it through a time-pressured assessment is.
Then again, I managed to do pretty well early in high school just by listening in class, with minimal study.
It must feel damn awesome to be one of these guys. I mean, imagine being a shape-shifting, eight-armed genius with your brain spread throughout your entire body, able to feel the things you're thinking about. Besides worrying about the occasional shark or 4-star restaurant, I wouldn't half mind being an octopus.
4-star restaurants are apex predators of all life on Earth. XD What a great comment.
@@alantremonti1381 humans, man. We transcend the definition of apex predators. We get all scared when spiders and snakes show up and all that crap, but we forget how much we terrify the other animals on Earth.
Another imagination scenario; you are a simple animal, living a simple life of foraging, but every step you take is shadowed by the deadly threat of the ever-present, hairless primates that use their horrifying magic to consume everything in their path, bringing the trees themselves down in their wake. Hunted, pursued, and pushed to the very limits of your environment, you live in constant fear that one day, you will see one, or two, or three, with the barrels of their deadly weapons pointed in your direction; or more likely not even see one, just die instantly to an unseen trap. Terrifying creatures we are.
@@alantremonti1381 true!
Octopuses are amazing creatures, but they also make for great nigiri and takoyaki.
Seals too. They like to eat them and why not? I bet when a seal catches an octopus he does a little high five with his bros!
My favorite part is "how could a creature evolve so differently from humans?" The answers simple evolution doesnt have a set path it's just testing until the test survives long enough to be added to the patch update.
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Allah all mighty says in the Qur'an: Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?
meaning, `We will show them Our evidence and proof that the Qur'an is true and has indeed been sent down from Allah to the Messenger of Allah, through external signs, فِي الْآفَاق (in the universe),' such as conquests and the advent of Islam over various regions and over all other religions.
@@fullhd8721 indeed
@@commentscrusader3842 🌷
Humans did not evolve from an animal. That's such a silly way of thinking. We We're Fearfully and wonderfully made!!! We were made in the image and likeness of God! Not an animal.
No proof of any god or science.
The answer is....WE DON'T KNOW.
How do we even imagine an octopus "subjective experience", when its intelligence seems almost more like a collective cooperation with the arms rather than a "top-down" dictatorship (as our brains are, apart from the neurons in our hearts)?
Imagine being "the head" of an octopus, sometimes dragged along by the autonomy of your arms.
Or imagine being "the arm", dedicating your whole existance to the benefit of the other 7 arms and the head.
We cant even begin to imagine the subjective experience of such an organism.
octopuses: "we've been on earth way before even sharks existed"
humans: "octopuses look like they are not from earth"
octopuses: "the arrogance of these bipedal land fishes is going to be their doom"
My Latino dude it’s Octopi not octopuses 😂
do you know the plural of octopus in spanish?
@@JosueLopez-kk9us I think it would be los pulpos 😂
My mom is from Peru so I know lol
@@koukkoufos2000 dude, you should learn spanish formally, such an opportunity when your mom is hispanic
@@JosueLopez-kk9us I do speak Spanish actually, I’m just not as confident with it as I am with English 😂, like I have no American accent when I speak Spanish thankfully.
House cat: "If I fits, I sits"
Octopus: "Watch and learn my son."
House cat: (bows down) "I am not worthy"
Octopus: “So we evolved with a giant brain but we lost our armor? That’s dumb. I’m taking this armor.”
Once you lose the shell, you get the brain, once you get the brain, then you get the armor 😏
Evolution is a myth
@@Bajannubian095 g1
@@gerardorodruiguez5928 kinda like how we ditched the muscle, got brain, then made guns
@@Bajannubian095 batman I thought you were smart
Octopus: Coming out of my shell and I've been doing just fine
Gotta gotta evolve because I want it all
I played with a fish how did I end up like this?
It was only a fish
It was only a fish!
Now I think with my feet and it's crawling on land
I can look like a rock and now it's got hands?
Now shes stroking my head now
She takes off the lid now
let me gooo
I don't know what I just read, but I enjoyed every word of it
@@notfunny3397 Reworked lyrics to Mr Brightside by The Killers
Outta there boiiii hahaha
This was too good 😭😭
I just sang the whole ting my guy
That was fascinating.
As a diver, I've always had a great interest in octopus. This just put it on another level.
"the octopus lost its shell 140m years ago"
poor thing, we should help them find it
Yeah. I haven't left mine for about that long too.
140 milli years ago? If you mean million then it should be M... you're a power of 10^9 off mate...
how they know that?
@@naturalLin Queen Elizabeth told them
@@_M27_ we got einstein over here
Wonderful video. Really appreciate it.
Loses it’s shell
“Evolves intelligence”
Picks up a coconut shell
😂
Humans: Loose fur. Evolve big brains. Hunt animals. Steal fur. Make clothes.
they dont need the shell most of the time since they rely on being agile to survive
More reason to question the whole dumb theory eh?
@@Beastw1ck then use tiktok and get brain ded
@@atticuscarr6905 what dumb theory lol
“as fast as the fastest blink you can do”
Me: *blinking intensifies*
Humans are simple af lmao
@@sumarbrander3354 why you so pressed? It was a joke...
@@sumarbrander3354 We are not born knowing how to hunt. Just as no one is born knowing how to make fire. It is impressive how our collective of ideas has been added to and passed down for 100,000+ years. At the end of the day we are animals that eventually learned how to communicate more efficiently than every other animal. We chose to become more complex it wasn’t due to evolution.
@@sumarbrander3354 overreaction?
@@sumarbrander3354 okay, boomer...
Amazing video, It didn’t show up in my recommended feed, ill leave a like and a comment so RUclips can recognize how good this video is
RUclips has been so arbitrary lately. Hard to get on the algorithms good side!
@@realscience yes I have noticed, you could ask for likes, comments and subscribes in your videos a bit more. People won’t mind and it will probably help significantly
@@realscience I just came here from recommended, instant sub so much quality in this video.
Well, here I am after having it in my recommendes list 😅🎉
@@realscience yes, it's been prioritizing short-length videos, memes and stuff from years ago😂 but this video is indeed really well produced. Congrats!
They are so subtle at connecting information with ads at the end of the video, that I forgot what the video was about 😂😂😂
If an octopus's legs have a mind of their own then the octopus already has a group of friends to talk to... When I do it I get called weird and put on medications.
Uh... do your legs have a mind of their own?
I'm not saying that makes it less weird, just weird for different reasons. haha
@@brianhsly sometimes it feels that way. I'll know a coffee table is in the middle of the room but for some reason, my shin will be like "Hey, let's go pick a fight with that thing over there." and the rest of the leg follows.... The shin always loses against the table, but it never learns.
I can’t tell if this is satire
@@speakstheobvious5769 just don't get ahead of yourself...I do on this...internet...web..lol Your heart is real. You are true. You aren't an echo. Its not your job to make people realize that but keep being who you are and it'll all flow into place eventually. Self care. Recycle ♻️ don't let it recycle you
@@sam3524 Poe's law. We are all in its clutches.
Why can't regular schools present content like this? I remember sleeping through my entire elementary classes.
It's difficult to make learning entertaining, some are better at it than others.
I slept through my entire college classes, it doesn't get better folks.
I thought the same.... much of education should inspire 'wonder and curiosity
@@rydersonthestorm7175 I slept in classes my entire life, lucky me I still got good grades but still in my entire life had only a handful of good teachers.
Because regular schools aren't perfect. I don't mean that Schooling system can necessarily brainwash brighter students or its not beneficial for those who can't think and work independently.
But, there's exaggeration of so many unnecessary things & so much editing & omission of necessary/important things. So much misinformation also in history, science, economics, etc.
Masses are trained to become an obedient slave of the system.
Infact they have an agenda to indoctrinate people from childhood into what's right and what's not, what to believe and what to reject.
You can either see any of it -:
Watch Part - 20
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or
A Scientist/Ph.D. is also surprised with the missing information about Golden Ratio everywhere in Nature.
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"In many ways, the octopus is as close to alien life as we may ever see."
Denis Villeneuve: "And I took that literally."
Lovecraft: pffftt...
@@1erickf50 also lovecraft: *incredible racism*
Drew Sikora So?
Can you define alien life? Do you know what are you talking about? First define the concepts you use, dummy.
@@JB-dm5cp so he was racist. Draw your own conclusions and make your own opinions about it known.
Absolutely amazing animal and another really great video. I'm hooked.
They dropped armor in exchange of speed.
And Stealth.
And Intelligence
And camouflage
If they could transfer the knowledge to future generations, they'd build civilization under ocean over 0.01 million years🤣🐙🤣🐙🤣🐙🤣🐙🤣🐙🤣
So that they could then slow themselves down by hobbling along to carry a cumbersome coconut shell around?
One of the most underrated facts about them is how they have no front or back. They have complete 360° movement.
yeah ,youre right
😯
I mean we can also walk 360° if we want to.
back of the head?
@@squidyspecifications7709 ok well lemme see you walk up and down.
Amazing video! I am amazed by these creatures, they’re so cool 👍
it is truly eye opening to realize how many ways life has developed on just our planet. Makes you realize how resilient it is, and how unlikely it is to have only happened here.
We all have a common ancestor though.
Maybe, the development of the first cell is extremely rare, or maybe, multicellular life almost never develops
As far as science goes it's more of the starting point in life than the conditions on other planets that are the limiting factor. If life originated on other planets as the same way on earth it would reflect that planet conditions just like ours. I'm excited to see if there is any actual life that could potentially be discovered on Venus in the coming years.
@@MareHazyDawn Mars is even more likely (I work in astrobiology). We might even have discovered life already back in the viking LR test.
And the early mars was extremely similar to early earth.
Imo the limiting factor really is the development of multicellular life
@@aldoushuxley5953 i guess only time can tell us those answers
@@d_ruggs yup. We need to bring back material from mars. Until then, we will not know anything.
I really think, that there is still life in the martian regolith
What blows me away is that they don’t live long; squid, cuttlefish, or octopus. But develop all these skills so quickly.
Work hard, play hard, babyyyyy
its in their genes 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
If they don't learn quickly, they'll die quickly...
@@octopus8420 it kinda makes me think of Bladerunner.
I am such a dork, it’s stunning.
@@TheTillmanSneakerReview truth
Humans: we’ve invented colour changing materials
Octopuses: hold our tentacles!
No, he said : Hold each other 😂
I recommend everyone in here to watch a documentary film called 'My Octopus Teacher' on Netflix.
😂😂😂😂😂
"Imagine having limbs that cannot move independently"
-This post was made by octopus gang
Octopus: holds out tenticle
Diver: shakes tentacle
Octopus: ...Damn these four legged seals are smart
Amazingly educational video that actually taught me something about octopus intelligence while heavily referencing scientific articles and entertaining me: subscribed.
If octopus had been social being, they will be a entirely separated civilizacion by now.
Octopuses had a great civilization, but they needed too much resources and made a great extinction in the past, the rest of the society decided to live like the old wild relatives, and then, humans evolved to make the same mistake
they also need longer life spans because they live too short to pass down their knowledge to their young and maybe then the octopus could begin to evolve its intelligence even more
Definitely!
@@blazingtrs6348 that sentence is very true. Imagine if they lived for 50 years, and their life overlapped that of their off spring. The possibilities are endless!!
Maybe the social octopi already left this planet and are waiting for us on Io.
Octopus getting out of it's shell made me realise, I need to get out of bed and out of my comfortzone... now
Same
Did it work?
Imagine octopuses evolve to go on land millions of years later and find our ancient buildings and projects. The explore it then start to restore it and make a new life before the sun devours them whole.
Splatoon
Someone make a book about this
I doubt structures would still exist... unless they somehow got buried very well without massive disruption.
Jesus…. What a thought
@@ok1025 true. The way submersion and the plates work…. They might already be under Earths crust. On a geological time scale, creatures moving their main habitat from aquatic to terrestrial is over millions of years
They are really impressing creatures. I love watching them. They are so unique with the ability to change in every colour or any structure,and this very fast. It is remarkable what they can do. Cool video 😅😅😅
Dumbo octupus is the cutest thing ever
One person's cute it another persons ugly
@@realscience so true, if video's are so good, you should get way more views than Real Engineering, the copycat.
@@realscience u didn't just call them ugly
Flapjack octopus for me
@@oliverm1255 real engineering has been here since 2013 real science just joined last year
It's kinda weird how such an informative and in depth video just straight up calls them colorblind and doesn't even mention their weird pupils. Some scientists think that utilize chromatic aberration and focus on different wave lengths to see different colors
Kinda surprised the whole dna and rna regulating in their neurons didnt get mentioned. Octupi can probably finely tune their brain chemistry and optimising the fuck out of it. Iirc they might even be capable of rewriting their own dna to some extent, which might help explain why they are everywhere and so many variations
Like wtf, these creatures are mind-boggling complex
@@jezusbloodie if they knew just how powerful that could be they'd be pretty scary
@@jezusbloodie , it's amazing that they are so developed yet have such short lives. I wish that they were long lived.
@@jezusbloodie WAIT THEY CAN REWRITE THEIR OWN DNA????
I'm absolutely blown away by the insane level of research and production put into this video! We're so lucky to be living in an era where such easy access to information exists
The cinematography was astounding! I had the privilege of running into one while scuba diving in the Caribbean once. They truly are, so incredibly amazing!!
Octopus: finally I got out of my shell and can change literally😂