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And all of a sudden this octopus appears, and now it flashes white, inks in my face and jets away.
Here you see the mimic octopus and a pattern.
The brain of the octopus shown here has 35 lobes to the brain, 80 million tiny cells.
Shown here, you see this octopus perambulating along, and then it suddenly stops and creates that perfect camouflage.
An octopus on a coral reef has a tough job in front it to go to so many places, remember and find its den.
But if you look on the left side, some of the evolutionary pathway outlined here to the octopus, they have both converged, if you will, to complex behaviors and some form of intelligence.
Here is the fundamental question: Is the brain structure of an octopus basically different down to the tiniest level from the vertebrate line?
The total sensory immersion into that world is what helps us understand what these animals are really doing, and I have to tell you that it's really an amazing experience to be down there and having this communication with an octopus and a diver when you really begin to understand that this is a thinking, cogitating, curious animal.
And moreover, there's been the recent discovery of light-sensing molecules in the skin of octopus which may pave the way to, eventually, smart materials that sense and respond on their own.
Take, for example, artificial intelligence that might be inspired by the body-distributed brain and behavior of the octopus or the smart skin of a cuttlefish translated into cutting-edge fashion.
I asked her what she wants to do next and she said, "I want to go to college and travel and eat weird foods like octopus that I've never tasted before and come visit you in New York and go camping, but I'm scared of bugs, but I still want to go camping."
Back in the dry south of Madagascar, we learned that one species was immensely important for villagers: this remarkable octopus.
Catches soared, with men and women landing more and bigger octopus than anyone had seen for years.
I first became fascinated with octopus at an early age.
And I remember my first real contact with octopus was probably at age five or six.
I was in the gulf, and I was swimming around and saw a little octopus on the bottom.
But the octopus did.
If you walked up to an octopus tank, especially early in the morning before anyone arrived, the octopus would rise up and look at you and you're thinking, "Is that guy really looking at me?
And then I realize the octopus won the arms race, because I was out and he had six left.
But the only way I can describe what I was seeing that day was that this octopus was playing, which is a pretty sophisticated behavior for a mere invertebrate.
But where I really learned about octopus was in the field, as a filmmaker making films with them, where you're allowed to spend large periods of time with the animals, seeing octopus being octopus in their ocean homes.
And there's a beautiful reef, very complex reef, with lots of animals, including a lot of octopus.
And not uniquely but certainly, the octopus in Australia are masters at camouflage.
And octopus are, they live in all the oceans.
A lot of them can release their luciferin or luferase in the water just the way a squid or an octopus will release an ink cloud.
The oil industry is like a huge, gigantic octopus of engineering and finance and everything else, but we actually see it in very moral terms.
When i saw the first octopus movie it was a laugh see the cheesy acting and appalling effects.
After Jaws and Piranha, sure, why not make a film about a killer octopus?
If I remember correctly, not one fish or sea creature is seen -- except for an octopus that momentarily latches onto the sub, a nod to 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA.
The octopus, if it was real, was probably about a foot long and it shows.
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