The Hero With A Thousand Faces
The octopus is an extremely clever creature. Today Tina and I went to the Seattle Aquarium. We were standing staring at a sardine-eating octopus (about 3ft long) who had attached itself to the viewing glass when one of the aquarium workers awkwardly sidled up and started spewing off octopus facts. (Did you know that the octopus tastes through all of its “suckers”? So it basically tastes everything it touches—if only . . .).
Anyway, it came out that a few months ago crabs in the tide pool exhibit (about 30ft away from the octopus) were inexplicably disappearing. The mystery was so profound that the aquarium staff had video cameras installed in and around the tide pool area.
What they discovered: after all of the staff went home for the night, the octopus would “climb” up over the glass surrounding its exhibit (a 5ft climb), drag itself thirty feet across carpeted floor (tasting every square inch), grab a couple crabs from the tide pool, and quickly make the return trip. What makes this even cooler is that the octopus can’t breathe above water, so it did all of this holding its breath.
The octopus is my hero of the week.
posted by Will at 7:58 PM
2 Comments:
That's crazy. I wish I had that much determination. But I'm also glad i don't taste everything I touch. i.e. my dogs. Yuck. So I guess it's a trade off. By the way, your blog is cool so I put a link to it on my blog. Hooray. Have a nice day.
wow, that's really gross about tasting the carpet. Although if it got bad enough, I could wear gloves and not taste anything. Tasteless gloves. They would go with the rest of my tasteless fashion. The only really gross part after that would be whatever taste might be coming from your feet and socks.
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