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Octopus Crawls Out of Water and Begins Walking on Land (Video)

227 comments Octopus Crawls Out of Water and Begins Walking on Land (Video)

 

Written by Jerry James Stone, Treehugger

Wow, check out this amazing video of an octopus literally crawling out of the water and walking across dry land.

It turns out this behavior is not as uncommon as one might expect. Captive octopuses escape with alarming frequency. While on the lam, they have been discovered in teapots and even on bookshelves.

“Some would let themselves be captured, only to use the net as a trampoline. They’d leap off the mesh and onto the floor—and then run for it. Yes, run. You’d chase them under the tank, back and forth, like you were chasing a cat,” Middlebury College researcher Alexa Warburton says. “It’s so weird!”

That said, capturing it on film is quite rare. Mainly because studies on octopuses are so limited due to the creature’s typical shyness and their brief life span of about three years. Back in 2005, the journal Science first published findings on this behavior. However, this was underwater. These octopuses were the first animals to walk on two limbs without a hard skeleton; usually they use all eight legs.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if other octopus species also walk,” said Science author Christine Huffard, from the University of California, Berkeley.

It seems like they do!

This post was originally published by Treehugger.

 

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Photo from neptunecanada via flickr

227 comments

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12:47AM PST on Jan 9, 2012

Thanks for great post.

7:20AM PST on Jan 1, 2012

amazing

6:51PM PST on Dec 29, 2011

what a TRIP! i have no idea why people eat octopus...or any other animal for that matter...

2:33PM PST on Dec 20, 2011

That was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

4:05PM PST on Dec 9, 2011

Should add a sound track with 'Part of Your World' sung by say, Traci Hines....

3:21PM PST on Dec 6, 2011

This octopus is awfully slick....Pretty cool!!!!!!

5:25AM PST on Dec 1, 2011

wow,wonderful

5:25AM PST on Dec 1, 2011

wow

7:42AM PST on Nov 30, 2011

Wonderful.

4:40PM PST on Nov 29, 2011

Nothing like being in the right place at the right time.

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