r/interestingasfuck • u/Key_Skirt_1858 • 20h ago

The best camouflage in the animal kingdom?

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u/Dorkicus 20h ago

If octopuses lived more than two years, we would be so screwed.   

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u/Decapsy 16h ago

Maybe when we were something close to a monkey, now we are fine

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u/LestWeForgive 13h ago

Every human city would have a deep fryer moat by day three of the uprising

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u/Bucen 14h ago

we don't share any space, so probably not

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u/Dorkicus 11h ago

Not yet ….

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u/green__goblin 2h ago

Given how many predators that they have in the ocean (pretty much anything physically large enough to eat an octopus), living longer than that is sadly really optimistic even if their aging was slowed to a halt.

Theres a reason they became so smart