Bipedally walking Octopus

[Gonodactylus]

Crissy Huffard has a paper coming out in Science tomorrow on walking octopus. The video is up right now at:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/24_octopus.shtml

I think you will enjoy it!

Roy

[cephalopoder]

That is mind blowing. Far better than anything I saw the mimic doing that for sure! I wish there was longer footage to view.

[1tankneverenuff]

That is just too sweeeeeeeeeeet...

[mightymouse]

the video wont come up for me :(

[Gonodactylus]

It is all over the web in many different formats. Go to Google, click on New, and type in walking octopus. It will list several possible sites.

Roy

[lil_mikey69]

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/9999/walking.mpeg

[rwhhunt]

Roy, do you think this octo is tring to mimic another creature? Why would it "go out of its way" to utilize two legs to walk onthe bottom, if it could use jet propulsion in a much easier and quicker fashion????

[lil_mikey69]

Originally posted by rwhhunt
Roy, do you think this octo is tring to mimic another creature? Why would it "go out of its way" to utilize two legs to walk onthe bottom, if it could use jet propulsion in a much easier and quicker fashion????

They aren't trying to look like other animals, they are trying to appear as a different part of nature. One mimics a clump of seaweed, and the other, they think is trying to blend in as a floating coconut.

[rwhhunt]

Yeah thats amazing! In this months issue of coral magazine, it is dedicted to octopuses, and they have an article in there about the mimic octo, it mimics lionfish and sea snakes. It is quite remarkable...

[TheyCallMeFishy]

Hahaha that is hilarious wow. The first one looks like someone running with grocery bags. Is this a recent trick or have we just discovered it?

Off topic, but Gonodactylus, is your avatar that deadly poisonous Hapalochlaena lunulata (Blue-ringed Octopus)? Can't it kill a human in one bite, because thats crazy.