An Octopus Stole One’s Camera
Well, not one’s, but one other‘s, certainly.
How beautiful!
“Octopuses¹ are highly intelligent, likely more so than any other order of invertebrates…Octopuses have also been observed in what some have described as play: repeatedly releasing bottles or toys into a circular current in their aquariums and then catching them.” Wikipedia
¹Just want to say that the plural of octopus is not octopi. It may be octopuses but one prefers the correct Greek plural: octopodes.
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Posted: 28 April, 2010 in comedy/humour, environment, fun, Life, Video.
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Comments
Comment from roger migently
Posted: 1 May, 2010 at 3:00 pm
After seeing this video I’m going for a Theft of Octopodes (or octopuses if you must) …
I recall when I was little watching the boys at Manly Pier diving for pennies thrown into the harbour by passers-by. Usually they kept the pennies in their mouths. But one day the boys had captured an octopus, turned it inside out, hung it on a protruding bolt (or something) and were attaching their pennies to the suckers on its tentacles. You’ll go a long way to find something like that these days.
Comment from laird lang
Posted: 28 April, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Yes well, there is no collective noun for octopodes [that,octopodes' is open for debate, however I join your side], how about Yotta-pus (to make it easy). In great numbers, of course.