Extraordinary Octopus Takes To Land | The Hunt | BBC Earth

Northern Australia has the highest tides in the tropics, which expose vast areas of shoreline. And here lives a truly extraordinary species of octopus. Octopuses are marine animals. They live and breathe underwater. At low tide, most octopuses would be imprisoned in their rocky pools. But this is no ordinary octopus. It's the only one specially adapted to walk on land. It pulls itself along, using the hundreds of tiny suckers that line its arms. Hunting for crabs, it walks from pool to pool. Apart from a rather startled fish... this one is empty. So, the octopus moves on. A rock pool may seem like a safe refuge. But the octopus's suckers enable it to move just as stealthily in water as out of it. Nowhere is safe when this octopus is around.

Channel: BBC Earth

Views: 19,905,373

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Id: ebeNeQFUMa0

Length: 3min 55sec (235 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 23 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Great video demonstrating some neat behaviour. The sound effects were more than a little distracting for my tastes though.

[u/EmperorofEarf]

I love the fish that spits out his food and is like "bye Felicia."

[u/JonathanJK]

Four minutes flew bye watching this. Amazing story telling and visuals.

[u/BardyQuest]

So is it a kid or a squid?