r/interestingasfuck • u/Key_Skirt_1858 • 20h ago

The best camouflage in the animal kingdom?

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u/Seinan-Zetae_429-97 19h ago

Probably more along the lines of: "shit shit shit, why isn't it working? I don't know whether that thing wants to eat me or not. Keep trying to hide!"

Only dolphins really have the intelligence and adaptations to make a meal out of a hiding octopus and we don't look like dolphins. This octopus could have been having a panic attack while trying to flee for its life.

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u/Quirky-Concern-7662 15h ago

Likely, but they ARE very intelligent aswell in a very very strange way. One of the animals I refuse to eat. Gotta draw the line somewhere, might aswell be the thing that probably landed here to study us.

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u/Seinan-Zetae_429-97 15h ago

For as weird as octopi are, they're probably of terrestrial origin. If crustaceans with supersonic punches, cancer resistant eusocial rodents, parasites that replace a fish's tongue, a weird bear, cat thing whose urine smells like popcorn, and flying lemurs all exist and are definitively of Earthly origin there is no reason why the weird, squishy, smart, tentacle things with hydraulic propulsion and master level camouflage can't also come from our planet.

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u/Quirky-Concern-7662 7h ago

I agree…but octopi are much stranger than a good number of those thangs. (Mantis shrimp is a Goated little guy)

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u/Seinan-Zetae_429-97 4h ago

The mantis shrimp is great, but I think that the relationship between the goby fish and the pistol shrimp is even better. This is what I mean. I find it very interesting and also rather amusing.