What the?

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I've no idea if this is real, but it's impressive either way...
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faceless wrote:I've no idea if this is real, but it's impressive either way...
That was an octopus, camoflaged in the 'weeds'... soon as it felt the camera guy was a threat, it swam off....
Obviously the reverse in slo-mo was to show how great it was hidden.
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6ULDV8 wrote:
faceless wrote:I've no idea if this is real, but it's impressive either way...
That was an octopus, camoflaged in the 'weeds'... soon as it felt the camera guy was a threat, it swam off....
Obviously the reverse in slo-mo was to show how great it was hidden.
as far as I knew only the cuttlefish could change like that - not octopus...
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faceless wrote:
6ULDV8 wrote:
faceless wrote:I've no idea if this is real, but it's impressive either way...
That was an octopus, camoflaged in the 'weeds'... soon as it felt the camera guy was a threat, it swam off....
Obviously the reverse in slo-mo was to show how great it was hidden.
as far as I knew only the cuttlefish could change like that - not octopus...
They're able to also. What's neat is they don't just use it as camo but they also use color changes to communicate with each other.
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