What If a Giant Octopus Suddenly Grabbed You?

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you turn around and spy a reddish pink
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creature
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with three hearts nine brains and eight
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powerful long arms
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each of these arms is decorated with two
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rows of scary-looking suction cups
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the blood running inside its body is
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blue the creature lurking deep in the
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water
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seems to embody everything mysterious
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and creepy about the ocean
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nah it's not a new horror movie it's not
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even your gym teacher
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i'm talking about the giant pacific
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octopus the critter's huge
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an adult octopus is often 16 feet from
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tip of one arm to the tip of another
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it's almost like three adult people
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standing one on top of another
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why i have no idea the largest specimens
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can also weigh more than 100 pounds
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but the size record is held by a giant
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that grew to be
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30 feet across and had the weight of a
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whopping 600 pounds
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hey just imagine all the sushi you can
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make with that
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but then what would happen if you got
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caught by this creature which is several
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times your size
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would you manage to escape or survive
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such an encounter at all
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it's not that easy to come across the
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underwater giant
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octopuses are well-known introverts not
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only do they prefer to live on their own
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but they also try to avoid humans at all
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costs
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you don't look like their everyday meal
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shrimp lobster
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clams or fish i'll have what she's
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having
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you don't even resemble their largest
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prey sharks
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yeah i'll skip that admittedly there
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have been cases where giant octopuses
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tried to snack on divers
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but they usually got discouraged very
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fast and hid
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under the rocks to meet a giant octopus
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you would need to travel to the north
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pacific coast
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it can be japan alaska british columbia
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choose a place to your liking these
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creatures like cold waters
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rich in oxygen if you're lucky or should
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it be
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unlucky you'll see one of them close to
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the shore
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giant octopuses can live in the area
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that is relatively dry at low tide
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and underwater at high tide or you might
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need to dive to a depth of more than 6
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600 feet octopuses can go that far down
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but then the world's deepest scuba dive
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happened when an egyptian man plunged
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1090 feet in the red sea in egypt that
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deep under the surface
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the pressure is 30 times greater than at
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sea level
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oh and the diver's new nickname is
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squish no not really
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what if you were wearing an atmospheric
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diving suit
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that's a hard shell protecting you from
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the tremendous deep sea pressure
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it looks like a spacesuit and no water
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or gas can get inside
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but even dressed in this armor you
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wouldn't be able to get deeper than two
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thousand feet below the surface
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well the octopus's body has no air
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cavities and thus
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doesn't contain air its blood is liquid
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its flesh
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solid there is no difference between the
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pressure inside its body and
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outside which makes it possible for the
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animal to dwell
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at such immense depths you with your
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body filled with air
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don't have such an ability that's why
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you're wearing a simple diving suit and
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looking for a giant octopus in shallow
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waters
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you aren't likely to notice the creature
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at first just below the surface of its
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skin
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there are special camouflage cells each
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of them contains something like a tiny
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balloon filled with pigment
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orange yellow red brown black you name
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it
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when the animal's muscles and nerves
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make the balloon expand
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the color it contains becomes more
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visible this mechanism
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allows the octopus to change its color
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and texture
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and blend in with corals rocks and
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plants
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in case of danger the animal can alter
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its appearance
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in the blink of an eye no wonder you are
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unaware of the danger lurking several
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feet below you
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oh you're shell shocked when a giant
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shadow lurches toward you from the
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darkness
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the octopus launches itself onto you and
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wraps its massive
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arms around your body the octopus's arms
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have their own mind
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because two-thirds of the animal's
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neurons are there
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not in its head that's why an arm can be
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solving one problem
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for example how to open a shellfish well
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its owner is busy with something else
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like looking for something else to munch
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on each of these powerful arms also has
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100 to 280 suction cups which can attach
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individually octopuses often use their
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arms as legs
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while slowly crawling along the bottom
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you feel these limbs securely swaddle
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your body
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you can't move a muscle okay time out
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octopuses do not have tentacles they
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only have arms
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it's true just saying anyway the octopus
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must have decided you're a menace
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that's why it releases a cloud of black
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ink
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now you're extremely lucky to be wearing
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a mask this
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ink not only hides the animal but it can
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also physically harm its enemy
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if this stuff got into your eyes it
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would cause terrible irritation
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your senses of taste and smell would
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also get confused
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the ink is actually so potent that
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victims which don't have enough time to
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escape
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it may not survive you keep struggling
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the giant monster doesn't like it it's
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trying to drag you down to the bottom
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you're desperately moving your flippers
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but it doesn't seem to work
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you grab onto the octopus but it feels
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as if it's slipping through your arms
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these creatures are some of the most
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notorious escape artists among all
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sea inhabitants they can squeeze their
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compressible body through literally
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any small hole or tiny opening having no
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bones air bladders or gas pockets inside
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their bodies
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makes it possible you however turn out
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to be a fidgety prey
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that's why the animal decides to use its
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main weapon
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a mighty beak this sharp beak helps the
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octopus to drill into shelled prey
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you can imagine how tough it is it's the
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creature's hardest part
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and it can be as big as an adult's hand
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once the beak fits into some hole
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the animal is bound to get through as
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well such a bee can easily tear through
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my diving suit
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and crack my face mask this thought
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makes you panic
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you start to flail trying to get as far
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away from the terrifying beak as
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possible
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despite all your attempts the thing's
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getting closer what makes the situation
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even worse is that all octopuses are
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venomous
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it helps them paralyze clams in opening
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their shells
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good thing you're not a clam more good
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news
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this venom can't harm you but you should
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be really grateful the octopus that's
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latching onto you
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isn't the blue ringed octopus this golf
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ball-sized critter has venom
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1000 times stronger than cyanide that's
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one of the reasons the animal is
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considered one of the most treacherous
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in the ocean
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anyway by struggling non-stop you must
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have caused too much discomfort to the
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octopus
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at some point it loosens its grip and
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you break free
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now keep in mind the giant pacific
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octopus is an eerily
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intelligent creature it has learned to
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mimic other species
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open jars solve problems and remember
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the solutions
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take things apart just for fun and
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navigate through mazes can it be
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because the octopus has not one but nine
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brains
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the central brain controls the nervous
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system but there's an additional brain
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in
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each of the creature's eight arms it's a
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cluster of nerve cells that control
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movement
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that's how the arms can work
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independently of each other but still
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together
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towards the same goal experts are also
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sure octopuses have distinct
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personalities
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and who knows what tricks your octopus
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is up its sleeve
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or sleeves hey imagine trying to buy a
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tuxedo for an
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octopus hold on i'm getting off track
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again
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and you don't linger around after
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getting out of its grasp
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get back to the surface as fast as you
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can and if you think an octopus won't
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get you on dry land
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well i have some bad news for you there
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are
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octopus species that ambush hunt in tide
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pools
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they leave water for short periods of
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time to catch their prey
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moving on their arms lightning fast
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these critters are smaller than the
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giant pacific octopus
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but it still looks creepy hey if a group
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of octopuses had a demonstration
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would they be up in arms