Disneyfication of octopuses. In that video you'll see, exactly anything that you want to see.
Would justify perfectly an: "in the video the octopus is seen trying to avoid being stolen its food by all the other fishes", that is the same behavior that you'll see if you break a crab or an urchin underwater. Many coastal fishes from rocky bottoms will come to steal any food scrap available. They don't cooperate with other fishes on any way.
Or maybe they are playing "rock, paper, tentacle", but to me the message more probable here is "this is my food, go away". If you look the video carefully the fishes seem trying to swim near the mouth of the octopus, where the probability of stealing a scrape is higher.
> Probably shouldn't base your entire opinion of the study on a 17 second video or a fluff article.
I comment based on what I have, and using my personal experience on the field. Experience based on decades of hard study. I had studied Cephalopods for more than 17 seconds, you can bet for it.
If this is common behavior, don't you think that with all the scientists doing research on Cephalopods since Aristotle, and with the millions of hours of people keeping Cephalopods on captivity, somebody would had described it long time ago?. I wonder why suddenly science only finds facts that support the ideologies from the politics that (duh) block, or allow, the money trickle for research.
Never had seen so much wonderful hype science as since the last years. So much 'interesting' interpretations on the reality that defy the logical explanation, since the LLM landed. Suddenly cows fly and pigs live underground. How we never realized this wonders before the IA?
If you want me to spend hours chasing articles, pruning the lying and counterfeit, and making you a report, no problem. Just pay me for my time. Alternatively, if you want to believe that octopuses are small alien children walking undersea gardens with umbrellas, good for you. It's a free country.
You're the foremost expert on cephalopods with decades of experience in the field yet can't be bothered to spend 10-15 minutes to scan the study. Got it.
Love how you keep capitalizing cephalopod like you just copy pasted it off a google search to get the proper spelling :P
Remember kids. Animals in captivity always behave exactly as they do in the wild. Also every individual is exactly the same so you never see any variation in behaviour regardless of inhabiting a wide range across multiple oceans.
> Love how you keep capitalizing cephalopod like you just copy pasted it off a google search to get the proper spelling :P
Use Cephalopoda with uppercase 'C'. Problem fixed.
By the way, most people would say that the correct word is Google, with uppercase G. (I will not assume that you don't know how to use Google for that; it would be childish). In any case, yes, I check things in Google all the time, and you may want to do it also.
Look bro you're entire response history in this thread has been childish. You don't deserve more than that. A real expert expecting to be taken seriously would of at least bothered to scan the easily found study (<5 mins on google). Then they would of posted at least a cliff notes of what they found wrong with the study. Instead you just shit posted.
Would justify perfectly an: "in the video the octopus is seen trying to avoid being stolen its food by all the other fishes", that is the same behavior that you'll see if you break a crab or an urchin underwater. Many coastal fishes from rocky bottoms will come to steal any food scrap available. They don't cooperate with other fishes on any way.
Or maybe they are playing "rock, paper, tentacle", but to me the message more probable here is "this is my food, go away". If you look the video carefully the fishes seem trying to swim near the mouth of the octopus, where the probability of stealing a scrape is higher.