Living longer won't change much things, they will just get more experienced. What makes human so superior is that we live in a community, where experience and knowledge can be passed to others, so that the next generations will have a more solid base knowledge, like how the Pythagoras theorem take the humanity millions of years to be discovered is now a math problem of the secondary school students. It's called social evolution, to be distinguished from biological evolution if I remember correctly. I recall watching some TV show or facts on magazine or such that Octopuses can teach others too, but they often live alone. If Octopus had had the same behaviour millions of years ago, they could have been even smarter than us.
@@quanghung9430 I agree with everything except they wouldn't have been smarter than us.. they are smart but they cannot even pass the mirror test and animals that can such as orcas, orangutans etc still wouldn't be able to become as smart as us because they just aren't, nothing more to say. I would say that octopuses would still succeed better than orcas considering that their tentacles can help manipulate objects which would lead to creating advanced tools but even with those tentacles they still just are't smart enough to do that, even with millions of generations I still doubt they would get any far. Humans on the other hand were still self aware millions of years ago and were making tools like they knew they were made to do that.
As a marine biologist who gets the privilege to work with Giant Pacific Octopuses (the world's largest species) and Red Octopuses every day I can absolutely say that they are incredible animals with behaviors and personalities unique to every individual. I've worked with Dozens of these animals for a month to a year with each one, and I can remember each due to their distinct attitudes and behaviors. They even act differently towards individual handlers through both sight and feel (essentially taste). They never cease to amaze me. By the way, all marine biologists I know use octopuses as the most correct plural.
Ever since I found out just how intelligent and amazing they are, they've become one of my favorite animals. I really wish people didn't eat them. I try constantly to tell people how amazing and intelligent these animals are. They're absolutely fascinating.
Octopuses is the correct plural form of octopus because octopi is not a real word. Octopus is not latin, and only words with latin origin could end in i when plural.
Believe me you’ve not lived until you’ve felt the powerful, intelligent embrace of eight arms! Being held all at once by your head, torso, and legs is a mind-blowing experience. I’d say that we way under estimate the intelligence of these creatures. She could have easily ripped the regulator and mask off my face and pulled me to a really dark place yet with all that power she was mostly curious and graceful. I was really too enthralled to be scarred. In terms of most memorable events of my life this ranks right right near the top!
ryran Sure. This took place in 1990 (wow I feel old) so taking any kind of recording device to that level was still in the realm of Jacques Cousteau. Anyway, it was just me and a dive master. It was a normal dive tour like I’ve been on many times. We came in a group and everyone else had huffed their oxygen so we all got the sign to get out. I was floating up top and the dive master came to me, looked at my tank and said: “You’ve still got better than half your supply. Wait here and I’ll be back.” No big deal. He comes back and says: “ Do you really want to see something?” I said “absolutely.” He said “Okay, just promise you won’t freak out!” He certainly tested me before we got to the main event. As we descended we could see Humpback whales moving past us (that alone was worth the price of admission) as we slipped between coral walls and got much deeper. He knew exactly where the (forgive me) octopus’s garden was. We stopped and floated a couple feet above a coral patch and that’s where she came out. He knew exactly where she was and she obviously recognized him. As they said hello I saw one arm come over as a kind of gentle curiosity and as I moved toward her she wrapped more arms over my head and face then she came over to completely embrace me. It then became a full eight arm hug. It was absolutely mind blowing (I know, it sounds kind of pervy but it was nothing like sex.) It was like meeting an alien high consciousness. In fact, I felt like the alien. I was the alien. It was her home. These creatures are not at all scary or threatening. Interesting, curious and exceedingly gentle are the best words to describe them. As I said it was an embrace that was like nothing I’ve experienced, before or since. I can’t fully express what it felt like. I guess it’s like trying to describe emotion. A bunch of emotions. It’s different for everyone. After maybe a minute (it could have been way longer. I totally lost track of where I was) the dive master slowly peeled her off me and she released me. In the open you could see her vulnerability. She gracefully moved back and returned to the safety of her den. When we returned to the top the dive master made me promise not to say anything to the other divers because, ultimately, it would have been death to the octopus if tours of people started down to disturb her. Meeting that octopus fundamentally changed my beliefs about animals. I actually felt humbled and ashamed of the arrogance we have as human beings. It is easily one of the coolest experiences of my life!
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Some cultures in third world countries dont have big seafood stores with refrigeration, they keep the fish alive for freshness, would you eat an octopus that was dead for days at 90 degrees? However if you mean well off people who do that then yes that isn't necessary at all, oh and yea I guess once you get one you could kill it first instead of eating it alive that seems kinda sick
Octopus Hank: “humans might not look like us, move like us, live like us, or probably even think like us, but they have somehow evolved intelligence in ways we are only beginning to understand.” Octopi listening: *take notes*
That is a really interesting question. I imagine that information processing (beyond the basic "ow! that hurt" responses) is probably done in the central brain, since octopuses can live with an arm removed and it wouldn't make sense for them to store information there. I don't know if anyone knows this, but I am guessing that the the neurons in each arm are only used for sensation and motion in that arm. I think there have to be many of them because octopus arms have lots of separate little muscles and are very sensitive.
I was ready to post a comment about how you were mistaken and confusing them with other unrelated animals, but you're right. Octopus limbs do regenerate at surprising speed and with even more surprising fidelity (regrown limbs are often just as effective as the original). It's pretty surprising given their unparalleled complexity.
TheRniz No, they do not regrow brains, just limbs. The nerves in their limbs have different functions than those in their brains. It is important to understand that invertebrate behaviors do not just depend on their brains which is why many simple invertebrates can survive without their heads for days to months.
Truck -kun there is a law called Animal Cruelty. Such as abusing animals and doing anything just plain wrong to animals. I ain’t going any farther I’m sure anyone wouldn’t want to know
The fact that they evolved so seperately but still became highly intelligent is a good argument that alien species would evolve to become highly intelligent.
I always knew the Octopus was awesome! When I was seven I did a 'class talk' on them and got ridiculed by my peers. I've still a lot of my Octopus plushies and a picture of one on my wall. I always feel it's unfair to keep them confined in such small tanks at aquariums. Humans always take an anthropocentric view on intelligence in other living ways, it stops us from discovering more.
They can even play favorites. I read an article about an octopus that hated one particular intern. Every time she'd walk by his tank, he'd squirt her. She went back to school and the octopus never repeated the behavior until she came back during her break.
Kind of a missed opportunity to bring up the fact that squid and octopuses have a genetic code that is prone to mutation and evolution at 10x the speed of, say, humans. Combine that with their short lifespan and you can understand why they are one of the most adaptable species in the ocean.
@@90AlmostFamous you don't need that. If you had electricity, you could seperate water into oxygen and hydrogen, and use that as fuel sources. They can also survive on land for a short time. Electricity under water sounds proposterous, but there are plenty of animals which can generate electrical charges etc
Wanna read a crazy story, that's most likely true? I was working at an aquarium pet store, back in 2008/09. We were located a few miles from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Naturally, we had some of their business, as far as salt water critters they'd purchase. One of the researcher/ teacher's came in and we ended up talking octopuses, specifically how intelligent they are. He told me about how he kept two aquariums in his classroom. One was for his octopus and the other for fish. Anyway, after they had the octopus for a few months, they began to have fish disappear. They couldn't figure out why, considering that the octopus was always in his own tank. This tank was about 20 feet away from the fish. This went on for several weeks. Every morning they'd come in, and sure enough, there would be a missing fish. He thought some student must be stealing his fish, or a janitor or something. One morning he came in early and noticed a trail of water on the counter top. The octopus was in the fish tank! It had been opening the hood on it's own tank, crawling along the counter, climbing into the fish tank. It would eat a fish, climb back out, crawl back to its own tank, close the freaking hood, and basically act all innocent. Pretty crazy, huh? I don't imagine he would make up such a story, so I believe him. These animals are much smarter than we know.
I remember when I was a kid, somewhere around 8 years old. I went to an aquarium and I noticed an octopus in between two rocks staring at me. I locked eyes with it and it just kept looking at me and I got a sense of intelligence or something that made me wonder if it was thinking about something. When Later on in life I found out they actually are intelligent and I was really intrigued.
if another mass extinction event occured, wiping off nearly all life above the deepest oceans, I could see some octopuses learning to go ashore and hunt mollusks stuck above the ocean tide and stuff, eventually making there way further inland, to freshwater and swamp locals, evolving to move on land. A species breaking off and repopulating the land
I don't think so. The lack of bones makes fast movement on land very hard (see slugs). They are very well adapted to water, I don't see how they would repopulate the land. However, one path of speculative evolution for octopuses I could get on board with are freshwater cephalopods
The video could have included some video of an octopus doing several of the cool things described. For example, moving towards coral, stopping and then disappearing from sight because of the better than chameleon camouflage, and then show one open a jar lid from the inside of the jar, then show one squeezing itself through a narrow passage such as a hole between 2 tanks of water, then show one walking out of the water, talking a short stroll before returning to the water. I've seen all these on several videos on UA-cam.
Octopus cognition is very interesting to me. For example, if two intelligent organisms as distant as dogs and octupuses have both developed 'play', it suggests that play may be an emergent trait of highly aware brains. Perhaps intelligence all over the universe tends toward a specific pattern and tends to have certain features in common.
Did u guys catch the netFlix special on the life of an octupus? She was being chased by a shark, so first she squirted ink and fled several times but he kept chasing. Next she wrapped herself in foliage but he smelled her and kept finding her. Eventually she got fed up and jumped on shore, waited for awhile but when she came back in the water the chase ensued. So her next move was to wrap herself in shells and use them as shields but the shark started trying to bite his way thru her defenses. As a last ditch effort she jumped on the sharks back and rode around on him! After a few minutes she hopped off and made it back to her den, the shark finally gave up. That's a smart animal. The guy that filmed this octupus for almost a year chokes up when he talked about her death, they were actually friends.
i think this might be the most fascinating video ive watched in over a month... plus im pretty sure i spelled fascinating correctly so thats another great thing about this video...
Wow this is really educational and cool. My Myers Briggs personality is an INTJ and these animals are very similar in the way they think and use their tentacles (extensions of themselves) to accomplish whatever decisions or goals they have to. They also have shown to have low extroverted sensing as shown in the pain reception part of where the isolated tentacles would react to senses. It's really interesting to see that connection and now I feel like I can understand octopi more.
Hearing about the Octopi becoming more intelligent then Oysters because "loosing" their shell as a protecting home, it would be interesting to compare the intelligence of snails with the intelligence of slugs. Slugs are more vulnerable due to not having an external shell, so there is a possibillity, they are more intelligent then snails. This could be a very interesting experiment, also because Octopi, mollusks, snails and slugs all belong to the Mollusks.
such beautiful creatures it pains me greatly how people can eat/kill them in such barbarous ways like eating them alive, these need to be left alone and need to be studied.
I want to box an octopus. I don't mean contain them in a box, rather I mean I want to fight one. I'm imagining it'd use some sort of Kenshiro Fist of the North Star RAAA TA TA TA TA TA type moves with its many arms and totally finish me off. That's okay, because I think most people would understand there's nothing to be ashamed about losing to an octo.
The first thing my future self wants to do when we master genetic engineering is create an octopus that can live as long as we do. Mad scientist self agrees.
Yes, I am with you on that. We need to: - create freshwater cephalopods - bring cuttlefish to the americas - make octopuses live longer - make octopuses more social - give octopuses access to myelin to make them smarter and then all there is left to do is to teach them basic tool use, and observe our replacement, for when we inevitabely destroy ourselves
The existence of the supreme intelligence of the octopus might be a good way to see how alien life forms are likely to differentiate from us greatly, even down to the absolute fundamentals of our existence
I’m always shocked when “studies” find that an animal of any kind, has a personality or it’s own independent thoughts or behavior patterns. Why shouldn’t they? They are living, functioning creatures with souls and minds and thought processes. Thank you “studies” for getting on board with the conclusion that Octopuses aren’t just balls of mush. As such, should be treated as individual beings with respect and love and kindness.
Most animals don’t, they just have just live and have survival instincts because consciousness is only obtained through a combination of many different aspects that lots of animals don’t have
I love octopuses, they’re probably the closest we’ll come to an alien species until a UFO lands on the White House lawn. I was reading a book about them and the author mentioned in passing that they even the longest lived species only make it about 5 years or so, I almost cried, they don’t even live close to what a dog or cat does. Maybe just as well, if they lived for 30 years or so and developed a culture it would be mano a tentacle for dominant species.
i can only remember the day i peacefully got one out of the sea. Pet it for a while with my friends on the sore. When i decided to get it back in the water, it just wouldnt leave. They probably have emotions and i can only feel bad for this guy as it probably got catched by fishers the next days. If it felt a friendly connection with me and this made it trust humans, i can only feel bad for the betrayal it might have felt if it didnt get an instant brainshot.
I always have wanted a companion octopus, but they have such short lives and it would break my heart when it died. Can't we find a nice gene for them to live longer?
If you remove the part of their brain responsible for "mating", they live much longer. I agree, we should uplift them, make them more social and live longer etc.
No, people only think that because it sounds correct. It would only be octopi if it was latin, but it isn't. Octopus is a greek word so it is octopodes technically, but nowadays octopuses is also correct.
Eng'r'ish steals words from other languages, in this case we accidentally stole two of the same word. We're supposed to say Octopodes (that we stole from Greek) or Octopuses, but octopi we also stole from Latin, but we like Octopuses better.
Deep in the depths of the oceaum, lives a marvelous creature sometimes referred as the floppy floppy spider of the sea... Clams are stupid. #comebackzefrank
Vertebrate have a large number of neurons located outside the brain and acting as much more than relaying signal. The spinal chord can send repetitive signal automatically, such as walking. The reflex are also triggered there.
You should check that fact at 2:49. The earliest complex animals are believed to have evolved around 550mya, so I don't know where you got that 1.2 billion year number for the "split" between vertebrates and molluscs
I don't want my arms cut off BUT if I did end up in that situation I would totally feel better knowing they would crawl around and grab stuff...probably
I feel like we shouldn't base intelligence on our own. Just because some sea creatures don't build cities doesn't mean they aren't intelligent. It could be they have no need for building or technology. They might have their own language and social structure. Just because they aren't speaking English doesn't make them less than us. A lot of sea and land creatures have shown incredible intelligence. The only things separating us is what we've built. Without the safety of cities or structures or weapons, we would become less than the animals.
+Kadziet Yagami No, only 2 sea creatures have shown incredible intelligence, octopuses and dolphins. Other sea creatures have shown high intelligence, but not incredible intelligence. Also, we can tell if an animal is communicating with another member of its species, as the animal would have change its pose/position, make a sound, change colour, or glow to communicate. If it doesn't do any of these things, it is not communicating with another of its species.
@Nadz It may not be visible to humans but it is visible to recorders. All known animal communication has been studied (unless the animals communicating is very hard to study) but none of those animals have communication even close to the complexity of human languges.
1.2 billion years doesn't sound right for the split between mollusks and vertebrates. The Ediacaran biota is dated at about 600 million years, isn't it?
Yup. I don't even think we have metazoan living back then (they appear 940 millions years ago). So, our last common ancestor with octopus probably lived between 678 and 916 million years ago, according to TimeTree.org
Frank Lance That's just the english plural. Many prefer the latin plural Octopi. But since the word comes from the greek language, the correct plural would be Octopedes. All three of these are widely accepted, so quit whining and call them whatever you like
randomly came across a yt short of someone with a pet octopus, it caught my attention and i am now very interested in octopuses and how smart they are 😂😂
I want an RPG about being an octopus. The player could level up different defense/hunting mechanisms such as ink use, color change, or flexibility, using whichever one most appealed to them.
I'm happy that the octopuses/octopi has come so long way it's no longer needed to explain in every video that yes it's octopuses. I like the word octopodes. It sounds more fun. It's not the right word if you want to talk about these creatures, but it's accurate enough. They do have eight legs. But more than that. I like how it sounds =)
The study first describing personalities in octopuses was performed on the Ruby Octopus (Octopus rubescens), the species that we work with over at Octopodium!
Here is my dilemma: if an octopus ever uses a dynamite for fishing and accidentally blows itself apart in the process, should we give it a Darwin Award or not?
Octopuses just sounds wrong. I know that octopi is only an acceptable variant, but I had never heard octopuses before your video, and I'm 65. I'll probably continue with octopi because it is what I'm comfortable with.
Of course that's perfectly fine :) I think Hank uses Octopuses to provoke controversy so people can learn that there even are variants. As long as someone understands what you mean, I don't think there's a problem.
That's the correct word. "Octopi" is a made up word based on Latin words like "Cacti", but Octopus is a Greek word, so it follows Greek formations of plural, meaning the correct word would be Octopodes, or Octopuses in the case of the standard English formation of plurals, or Octopods for the zoology term, those three are all correct, but "Octopi" is wrong.
Yeah, but we still need to improve a lot on knowing the "why they are smart". Just to avoid being food? So why don't all preys in nature are smart as hell? My guess? Cthuhu ordered they being smart, so they could praise the ancient one and his glory.
Being smart is just one alternative to avoiding predators, other organisms found other ways to live on so they didn't need to be smart, while octopuses may have just hit an accidental lottery with being smart.
@@chorosso5259 thats usually a acceptable explanation, altough I still find it lacking... don't usually go for "accidental lottery", evalution usually has/ocludes more patterns than that
My preferred plural is 'octopi'. 'Octopuses' values standardization over practical pronunciation considerations, which I think is the wrong priority, so if I actively choose, I'll choose the one which prioritizes what i do. Of course, when I'm not thinking about it, I'll still often use 'octopuses'. 'Octopodes' places too much value on a language which is not the one being spoken. (Which makes me start to think about what would happen if we started capitalizing all nouns of Germanic origin and not capitalizing those of Romantic origin. Not a valid argument against 'octopedes', of course, but that's why this is parenthetical.)
@@cOmAtOrAn Standardization is the only thing that makes language work, but fortunately those standards can be loose. But then you say "octopodes" places too much value "on a language not being spoken", which could also be said of the word "octopi". Most people say "octopuses"; therefore "octopi" also qualifies as "language not being spoken" in most reasonable contexts. And now we have highlighted extremely well how little it all actually matters because, while standardized, language is temporal and flexible and not worth semantic argument. PS I'm high.
It makes sence that octopuses developed decentralized nervous system since they never evolved an ability to myelinate their axons. This makes their nerve signals relatively slow and inefficient over long distances. So it helps when these signals don't need to travel over long distances - hence decentralization. Additionally, a large, centralized brain would likely require more oxygen than their hemocyanin based blood could provide. So under these tough constraints it is very surprising how much intelligence could be had.
Makes me wonder how much they could learn if they lived longer than a few years
First how to make house's
Second take over the world
Finally flood everything...
yeah me too. Nautilus live longer, but they are not as smart...
not as smart as humans and never will be even if they could live 100 years
Living longer won't change much things, they will just get more experienced. What makes human so superior is that we live in a community, where experience and knowledge can be passed to others, so that the next generations will have a more solid base knowledge, like how the Pythagoras theorem take the humanity millions of years to be discovered is now a math problem of the secondary school students. It's called social evolution, to be distinguished from biological evolution if I remember correctly. I recall watching some TV show or facts on magazine or such that Octopuses can teach others too, but they often live alone. If Octopus had had the same behaviour millions of years ago, they could have been even smarter than us.
@@quanghung9430 I agree with everything except they wouldn't have been smarter than us.. they are smart but they cannot even pass the mirror test and animals that can such as orcas, orangutans etc still wouldn't be able to become as smart as us because they just aren't, nothing more to say. I would say that octopuses would still succeed better than orcas considering that their tentacles can help manipulate objects which would lead to creating advanced tools but even with those tentacles they still just are't smart enough to do that, even with millions of generations I still doubt they would get any far. Humans on the other hand were still self aware millions of years ago and were making tools like they knew they were made to do that.
As a marine biologist who gets the privilege to work with Giant Pacific Octopuses (the world's largest species) and Red Octopuses every day I can absolutely say that they are incredible animals with behaviors and personalities unique to every individual. I've worked with Dozens of these animals for a month to a year with each one, and I can remember each due to their distinct attitudes and behaviors. They even act differently towards individual handlers through both sight and feel (essentially taste). They never cease to amaze me. By the way, all marine biologists I know use octopuses as the most correct plural.
That’s incredible! Can I ask which octopus you worked with is your favorite and what is your favorite memory from working with these creatures?
Damn, so it ain’t octopussies??
Ever since I found out just how intelligent and amazing they are, they've become one of my favorite animals. I really wish people didn't eat them. I try constantly to tell people how amazing and intelligent these animals are. They're absolutely fascinating.
I'm pretty sure there are larger species on Earth
Octopuses is the correct plural form of octopus because octopi is not a real word. Octopus is not latin, and only words with latin origin could end in i when plural.
So for all intents and purposes, they're an intelligent alien species. Let's be nice to them. Just in case.
They're aliens. I've always claimed this.
:( I’ve eaten baby octopus
Lissette Ramirez
I’m never eating octopus or squid again.
They're but the Earth cousins of the Star Spawn of Cthulhu
@@KardasheviteUltravisionary the name that shouldnt be mentioned lol
Believe me you’ve not lived until you’ve felt the powerful, intelligent embrace of eight arms! Being held all at once by your head, torso, and legs is a mind-blowing experience. I’d say that we way under estimate the intelligence of these creatures. She could have easily ripped the regulator and mask off my face and pulled me to a really dark place yet with all that power she was mostly curious and graceful. I was really too enthralled to be scarred. In terms of most memorable events of my life this ranks right right near the top!
ckom0007 Go on!
vukashin88
What do you mean by “go on?”
ryran
Sure. This took place in 1990 (wow I feel old) so taking any kind of recording device to that level was still in the realm of Jacques Cousteau.
Anyway, it was just me and a dive master. It was a normal dive tour like I’ve been on many times. We came in a group and everyone else had huffed their oxygen so we all got the sign to get out. I was floating up top and the dive master came to me, looked at my tank and said: “You’ve still got better than half your supply. Wait here and I’ll be back.” No big deal.
He comes back and says: “ Do you really want to see something?” I said “absolutely.” He said “Okay, just promise you won’t freak out!”
He certainly tested me before we got to the main event. As we descended we could see Humpback whales moving past us (that alone was worth the price of admission) as we slipped between coral walls and got much deeper.
He knew exactly where the (forgive me) octopus’s garden was.
We stopped and floated a couple feet above a coral patch and that’s where she came out. He knew exactly where she was and she obviously recognized him. As they said hello I saw one arm come over as a kind of gentle curiosity and as I moved toward her she wrapped more arms over my head and face then she came over to completely embrace me. It then became a full eight arm hug. It was absolutely mind blowing (I know, it sounds kind of pervy but it was nothing like sex.)
It was like meeting an alien high consciousness. In fact, I felt like the alien. I was the alien. It was her home.
These creatures are not at all scary or threatening. Interesting, curious and exceedingly gentle are the best words to describe them. As I said it was an embrace that was like nothing I’ve experienced, before or since. I can’t fully express what it felt like. I guess it’s like trying to describe emotion. A bunch of emotions. It’s different for everyone.
After maybe a minute (it could have been way longer. I totally lost track of where I was) the dive master slowly peeled her off me and she released me. In the open you could see her vulnerability. She gracefully moved back and returned to the safety of her den. When we returned to the top the dive master made me promise not to say anything to the other divers because, ultimately, it would have been death to the octopus if tours of people started down to disturb her.
Meeting that octopus fundamentally changed my beliefs about animals. I actually felt humbled and ashamed of the arrogance we have as human beings.
It is easily one of the coolest experiences of my life!
ckom0007 wow that's a great story. And I imagine it was quite a large animal.
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Large enough to easily kill me if it wanted to. But at no time was there any fear on my part at all. She was simply curious and it was if she could sense my curiosity. What was truly amazing was the physical power and graceful dexterity of her eight arms. As I said it was a mind blowing hug. Being held all at once by such an intelligent and gentle being is something I’ve never experienced before or since. It’s something rare and beautiful. It totally changed my impression on intelligence in animals. In our unbridled arrogance we humans often don’t understand what other intelligent beings can teach us. It’s our loss.
Disgusting how some people eat them alive
yep
Some cultures in third world countries dont have big seafood stores with refrigeration, they keep the fish alive for freshness, would you eat an octopus that was dead for days at 90 degrees? However if you mean well off people who do that then yes that isn't necessary at all, oh and yea I guess once you get one you could kill it first instead of eating it alive that seems kinda sick
“Some people” hey. Wonder what they all share in common
@@william5691 they like octopus
@Terence Smith nope - Greeks are into this too, unfortunately
Octopus Hank: “humans might not look like us, move like us, live like us, or probably even think like us, but they have somehow evolved intelligence in ways we are only beginning to understand.”
Octopi listening: *take notes*
Octopi are masters of disguise, Hank may be an octopus himself!
If you cut off an octopus's arm, will its intelligence decrease? Wouldn't it be similar to cutting out part of someone's brain?
That is a really interesting question. I imagine that information processing (beyond the basic "ow! that hurt" responses) is probably done in the central brain, since octopuses can live with an arm removed and it wouldn't make sense for them to store information there. I don't know if anyone knows this, but I am guessing that the the neurons in each arm are only used for sensation and motion in that arm. I think there have to be many of them because octopus arms have lots of separate little muscles and are very sensitive.
I was ready to post a comment about how you were mistaken and confusing them with other unrelated animals, but you're right. Octopus limbs do regenerate at surprising speed and with even more surprising fidelity (regrown limbs are often just as effective as the original). It's pretty surprising given their unparalleled complexity.
TheRniz No, they do not regrow brains, just limbs. The nerves in their limbs have different functions than those in their brains.
It is important to understand that invertebrate behaviors do not just depend on their brains which is why many simple invertebrates can survive without their heads for days to months.
Maybe the arms are like Brain stems, reacting mostly on instinct.
+LeoBattlerOfSinsX84 Brain stems just connect the CNS to the PNS.
We need to breed octopuses to become smarter. To create the future spawn of Chtulhu.
But that would be cruel
Timid uwu how??
Truck -kun there is a law called Animal Cruelty. Such as abusing animals and doing anything just plain wrong to animals. I ain’t going any farther I’m sure anyone wouldn’t want to know
Flayvon I know animals cruelty exist but I don’t know how making something smarter suppose to be bad for it
Veemo!
The fact that they evolved so seperately but still became highly intelligent is a good argument that alien species would evolve to become highly intelligent.
---so there is still hope for the human race ? ? ?
"Octopuses"? I thought it was pronounced "Octoπ"
Good one!
nope
no, it is octopuses or octopoda. It is a greek, not a latin word.
(Octopus = head foot btw)
It certainly is now.
@@juiceneck69 I take it you don't get the joke. It's ok you need an IQ > than 3.14.
What do you think a horses number one priority when it comes to voting? A stable economy.
My little pony was gonna complain about that joke but she's a little hoarse.
can't believe you would steal that joke
You can always tell how they'll vote if you check the Gallup pole.
..alright..you guys quit horsing around...
***** loco/...
I always knew the Octopus was awesome! When I was seven I did a 'class talk' on them and got ridiculed by my peers. I've still a lot of my Octopus plushies and a picture of one on my wall. I always feel it's unfair to keep them confined in such small tanks at aquariums.
Humans always take an anthropocentric view on intelligence in other living ways, it stops us from discovering more.
They can even play favorites. I read an article about an octopus that hated one particular intern. Every time she'd walk by his tank, he'd squirt her. She went back to school and the octopus never repeated the behavior until she came back during her break.
Kind of a missed opportunity to bring up the fact that squid and octopuses have a genetic code that is prone to mutation and evolution at 10x the speed of, say, humans.
Combine that with their short lifespan and you can understand why they are one of the most adaptable species in the ocean.
Only thing keeping them back is they can’t make fire in water
@@90AlmostFamous Also they die after having sex.
@@willlllllllllllllllllll that sucks
Oh yeah! I learned that from a friend of mine!
@@90AlmostFamous you don't need that. If you had electricity, you could seperate water into oxygen and hydrogen, and use that as fuel sources. They can also survive on land for a short time.
Electricity under water sounds proposterous, but there are plenty of animals which can generate electrical charges etc
Wanna read a crazy story, that's most likely true?
I was working at an aquarium pet store, back in 2008/09. We were located a few miles from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Naturally, we had some of their business, as far as salt water critters they'd purchase.
One of the researcher/ teacher's came in and we ended up talking octopuses, specifically how intelligent they are. He told me about how he kept two aquariums in his classroom. One was for his octopus and the other for fish.
Anyway, after they had the octopus for a few months, they began to have fish disappear. They couldn't figure out why, considering that the octopus was always in his own tank. This tank was about 20 feet away from the fish.
This went on for several weeks. Every morning they'd come in, and sure enough, there would be a missing fish. He thought some student must be stealing his fish, or a janitor or something.
One morning he came in early and noticed a trail of water on the counter top. The octopus was in the fish tank! It had been opening the hood on it's own tank, crawling along the counter, climbing into the fish tank. It would eat a fish, climb back out, crawl back to its own tank, close the freaking hood, and basically act all innocent.
Pretty crazy, huh? I don't imagine he would make up such a story, so I believe him. These animals are much smarter than we know.
You said Octopodes!!!!! You have no idea how happy that makes me.
I remember when I was a kid, somewhere around 8 years old. I went to an aquarium and I noticed an octopus in between two rocks staring at me. I locked eyes with it and it just kept looking at me and I got a sense of intelligence or something that made me wonder if it was thinking about something. When Later on in life I found out they actually are intelligent and I was really intrigued.
if another mass extinction event occured, wiping off nearly all life above the deepest oceans, I could see some octopuses learning to go ashore and hunt mollusks stuck above the ocean tide and stuff, eventually making there way further inland, to freshwater and swamp locals, evolving to move on land. A species breaking off and repopulating the land
I don't think so. The lack of bones makes fast movement on land very hard (see slugs). They are very well adapted to water, I don't see how they would repopulate the land.
However, one path of speculative evolution for octopuses I could get on board with are freshwater cephalopods
@@aldoushuxley5953 No one can know for certain how a species would evolve or adapt to overcome a mass extinction event !
It seems like being the most physically helpless species of your kind either kills you off or causes you to evolve some smarts/camoflage.
The video could have included some video of an octopus doing several of the cool things described. For example, moving towards coral, stopping and then disappearing from sight because of the better than chameleon camouflage, and then show one open a jar lid from the inside of the jar, then show one squeezing itself through a narrow passage such as a hole between 2 tanks of water, then show one walking out of the water, talking a short stroll before returning to the water. I've seen all these on several videos on UA-cam.
Octopus cognition is very interesting to me. For example, if two intelligent organisms as distant as dogs and octupuses have both developed 'play', it suggests that play may be an emergent trait of highly aware brains. Perhaps intelligence all over the universe tends toward a specific pattern and tends to have certain features in common.
This puts a whole new perspective on killing and consuming them - doesn't it just. 🐙
2:08 i've seen enough hentai to know where this is going...
Ashamed at myself for getting that...
Did u guys catch the netFlix special on the life of an octupus? She was being chased by a shark, so first she squirted ink and fled several times but he kept chasing. Next she wrapped herself in foliage but he smelled her and kept finding her. Eventually she got fed up and jumped on shore, waited for awhile but when she came back in the water the chase ensued. So her next move was to wrap herself in shells and use them as shields but the shark started trying to bite his way thru her defenses. As a last ditch effort she jumped on the sharks back and rode around on him! After a few minutes she hopped off and made it back to her den, the shark finally gave up. That's a smart animal. The guy that filmed this octupus for almost a year chokes up when he talked about her death, they were actually friends.
If that octopus had been a human, that human would be dead !
The video that led me here was an octopus thanking someone after they freed it from being stranded. Pretty amazing stuff.
i think this might be the most fascinating video ive watched in over a month... plus im pretty sure i spelled fascinating correctly so thats another great thing about this video...
Comments:
40% It's octopi!
10% it's not octopi!
50% They are smarter than humans, They don't have religions.
And thus the youtube commenting environment is defined.
octipusses are religious.
my statement is grounded in as much evidence as its opposite.
+Luke thompson this was am amazing sentence lol.
1% this is the breakdown of the comments section.
Octopus is not a Latin based word. So it not Octopi. Its base Greek word means octopuses
octopi wallstreet.
That was terrible. I really enjoyed it.
Your horrible, horrible comment made my day. I laughed so hard and I don't really know why
Now I wish it WAS octopi.
Lmao
I dont think we should eat these guys no more.
Wow this is really educational and cool. My Myers Briggs personality is an INTJ and these animals are very similar in the way they think and use their tentacles (extensions of themselves) to accomplish whatever decisions or goals they have to. They also have shown to have low extroverted sensing as shown in the pain reception part of where the isolated tentacles would react to senses. It's really interesting to see that connection and now I feel like I can understand octopi more.
Hearing about the Octopi becoming more intelligent then Oysters because "loosing" their shell as a protecting home, it would be interesting to compare the intelligence of snails with the intelligence of slugs. Slugs are more vulnerable due to not having an external shell, so there is a possibillity, they are more intelligent then snails. This could be a very interesting experiment, also because Octopi, mollusks, snails and slugs all belong to the Mollusks.
I prefer to refer to them as *Octopodes* in plural. I think it is the most pleasant of all the ways to pluralise them.
Even though in modern Greek octopus is spelled χταπόδι and it sounds like htapodi
And the plural is χταπόδια which is pronounced htapodia
Well good thing English is no longer Greek or Latin. If I am not mistaken the correct word is octopuses in English.
it's part Latin part Germanic actually....
soum fasda
It's part a lot of things.
If you put it on 0.5 speed it's like he is high.
tried it lol
Wat
from now on this is how I watch scishow
I died at 0:40
..it's like listening to a drunk guy explain science.
Octopus is now off the menu...
My favourite Cephalopod ♥
One Word for Octopi..... RESPECT
9 brains 🧠
such beautiful creatures it pains me greatly how people can eat/kill them in such barbarous ways like eating them alive, these need to be left alone and need to be studied.
I feel like you came here after the cr1tikal video since he mentioned that they were intelligent
I want to box an octopus. I don't mean contain them in a box, rather I mean I want to fight one. I'm imagining it'd use some sort of Kenshiro Fist of the North Star RAAA TA TA TA TA TA type moves with its many arms and totally finish me off. That's okay, because I think most people would understand there's nothing to be ashamed about losing to an octo.
No, depending on the type of octopus, you'd either squish it or it would tear you apart with its suction cups.
SquidPlays Challenge accepted.
+SquidPlays
Suffocating is another way to loose
+SquidPlays
Other possibilities can be considered as well
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Last time I was this early, the events of the Gettysburg Address happened 87 years prior.
You (four) scored with that one. (with a margin of error +-7)
@1:30 that’s how bad our tap water supply is 😂
playful octopus + squeaky rubber duck = adorable.
The first thing my future self wants to do when we master genetic engineering is create an octopus that can live as long as we do.
Mad scientist self agrees.
Yes, I am with you on that.
We need to:
- create freshwater cephalopods
- bring cuttlefish to the americas
- make octopuses live longer
- make octopuses more social
- give octopuses access to myelin to make them smarter
and then all there is left to do is to teach them basic tool use, and observe our replacement, for when we inevitabely destroy ourselves
You're literally inviting danger of interspecies war by making the 2nd most intelligent animal live longer
@@default2591 - that 'inter-species war' would ONLY happen if we humans remain as stupid as the current (2024) wars in Gaza and in Ukraine prove !
The existence of the supreme intelligence of the octopus might be a good way to see how alien life forms are likely to differentiate from us greatly, even down to the absolute fundamentals of our existence
Yes, learning, and succeeding, on how to communicate with octopuses would be an excellent way on how to successfully communicate with an alien race !
I’m always shocked when “studies” find that an animal of any kind, has a personality or it’s own independent thoughts or behavior patterns. Why shouldn’t they? They are living, functioning creatures with souls and minds and thought processes. Thank you “studies” for getting on board with the conclusion that Octopuses aren’t just balls of mush. As such, should be treated as individual beings with respect and love and kindness.
Most animals don’t, they just have just live and have survival instincts because consciousness is only obtained through a combination of many different aspects that lots of animals don’t have
Came here after watching “My Octopus Teacher”. Wonderful creatures!
I love octopuses, they’re probably the closest we’ll come to an alien species until a UFO lands on the White House lawn. I was reading a book about them and the author mentioned in passing that they even the longest lived species only make it about 5 years or so, I almost cried, they don’t even live close to what a dog or cat does. Maybe just as well, if they lived for 30 years or so and developed a culture it would be mano a tentacle for dominant species.
why do i like the smell of Gasoline
Because goat eyes are flat to give them wider view.
I for one welcome our new squishy overlords
Hail Octopuses 🐙
Then Pixar comes along and animates an octopus (setpapus?) in the most gorgeously fluid, squishy way.
His name is Hank. Go figure.
i can only remember the day i peacefully got one out of the sea. Pet it for a while with my friends on the sore. When i decided to get it back in the water, it just wouldnt leave. They probably have emotions and i can only feel bad for this guy as it probably got catched by fishers the next days. If it felt a friendly connection with me and this made it trust humans, i can only feel bad for the betrayal it might have felt if it didnt get an instant brainshot.
So it seems that octolings are coming sooner than we may have thought
three words. Flying spaghetti monster.
1 retort, cthulu
OCTOPUSES = Cringe
OCTOPI = Smile
Octopodes: Cured cancer
I AM DAVE! Yognaut and I have the balls!
Both are acceptable
Both are accepted in modern language
Actually octopi is incorrect. it's adding a Greek suffix to a Latin word or something similar to that.
I always have wanted a companion octopus, but they have such short lives and it would break my heart when it died. Can't we find a nice gene for them to live longer?
If you remove the part of their brain responsible for "mating", they live much longer.
I agree, we should uplift them, make them more social and live longer etc.
@@aldoushuxley5953 ...well, we should start by not killing and eating them !
That is the most interesting episode of scishow I've ever seen, fascinating thanks guys!
one of my favorite animals. right up there with otters, elephants, and leopards.
The biggest thing I learned from this video is that the plural of "octopus" isn't "octopi."
i thought it was octopi?
No, people only think that because it sounds correct. It would only be octopi if it was latin, but it isn't. Octopus is a greek word so it is octopodes technically, but nowadays octopuses is also correct.
Eng'r'ish steals words from other languages, in this case we accidentally stole two of the same word. We're supposed to say Octopodes (that we stole from Greek) or Octopuses, but octopi we also stole from Latin, but we like Octopuses better.
Smores It's not possible to steal it from Latin. The word Octopus is not a Latin word at all.
You all are wrong, it's octopussies.
Octopodes. Octopus is from Greek. -us in Greek becomes -odes in the plural.
Deep in the depths of the oceaum, lives a marvelous creature sometimes referred as the floppy floppy spider of the sea... Clams are stupid. #comebackzefrank
He did come back, thankfully
Vertebrate have a large number of neurons located outside the brain and acting as much more than relaying signal. The spinal chord can send repetitive signal automatically, such as walking. The reflex are also triggered there.
So we have yet more evidence animals feel pain, sense danger. Yet still we traumatize and exploit them.
Yes, humans often are a brutal, egoistical, exploitative species !
You should check that fact at 2:49. The earliest complex animals are believed to have evolved around 550mya, so I don't know where you got that 1.2 billion year number for the "split" between vertebrates and molluscs
It's just a simple error !
@@HartmutJagerArt true
For anyone about to comment "IT'S OCOTPI!!!!!" Here. prntscr.com/bluszu
Ill help
It's Octopuses, search it up I'm not gonna explain the difference xD
This is English, I believe in the Webster dictionary at least, both are listed as correct.
They can also be called "Octopodes"
Octopodes!
Let's just say that these Cephalopods OCTOPI my mind ;)
good one ^^
I don't want my arms cut off BUT if I did end up in that situation I would totally feel better knowing they would crawl around and grab stuff...probably
Fantastic content. So fascinating and in this wild world we live in, its nice to hear some cool facts to explain the wonders of nature.
The 740 dislikes are from Squid 🦑
...or from insecure humans who feel there alleged 'superiority' challenged !
hmmm makes you kinda second guess eating them XD
I feel like we shouldn't base intelligence on our own. Just because some sea creatures don't build cities doesn't mean they aren't intelligent. It could be they have no need for building or technology. They might have their own language and social structure. Just because they aren't speaking English doesn't make them less than us.
A lot of sea and land creatures have shown incredible intelligence. The only things separating us is what we've built. Without the safety of cities or structures or weapons, we would become less than the animals.
+Kadziet Yagami
No, only 2 sea creatures have shown incredible intelligence, octopuses and dolphins. Other sea creatures have shown high intelligence, but not incredible intelligence. Also, we can tell if an animal is communicating with another member of its species, as the animal would have change its pose/position, make a sound, change colour, or glow to communicate. If it doesn't do any of these things, it is not communicating with another of its species.
@Nadz
That has nothing to do with my comment.
@Nadz
It may not be visible to humans but it is visible to recorders. All known animal communication has been studied (unless the animals communicating is very hard to study) but none of those animals have communication even close to the complexity of human languges.
@@cormacb2326 No One knows the full capacities of how intelligent animals can communicate !
@@HartmutJagerArt
There are only a small number of ways animals can commincate with one another so we can get a decent enough idea.
I love octopodes. My favorite sea animal.
I wish I was a Octopus so I wouldn't feel like a failure...
:D
You are not a failure! Believe in yourself!
You just need a purpose in life.
How about studying marine biology?
That way, you could spend time around octopuses more, and help us understand them
From now on the plural of Octopus is Octopuses and the plural of Squid is either Squu or Squa.
What about "squids"?
squildren
Squidlets
Squidlings
squirtle
1.2 billion years doesn't sound right for the split between mollusks and vertebrates. The Ediacaran biota is dated at about 600 million years, isn't it?
Yup. I don't even think we have metazoan living back then (they appear 940 millions years ago). So, our last common ancestor with octopus probably lived between 678 and 916 million years ago, according to TimeTree.org
Did you hear about the octopus that broke up with its 7th arm? They severed contact after one of them reached for the bottle.
Yea that wasn't that good, like at all.
I liked it!
Awesome piece, SciShow, thanks.
I remember watching all his anatomy and physiology videos he’s awesome so good to see him doing good still ♥️♥️♥️
2:48 really? 1.2 billion years? Wasn't the most complex organism back then an eukaryote cell?
He doubled it somehow, should be around 600 million years ago, flatworms.
the plural word for octopus is octagon. hank you need to learn your English sir
Mason Freer that was obviously a joke sir
Mason Freer I’m pretty sure that was a joke smarty 😆
It's october
Mason Freer
It’s actually octopuses-octopus is Greek, not Latin.
@@maryrosekent8223 yep.
Of course they are smart. Even their name is a math equation. Octopi = 8 X 3.141592....
Octopuses is the correct spelling so no.
that's the correct equation for all translated irregular shapings of the diametric field of the formation when one joins the other (s.) So haha.
Bazinga
Frank Lance That's just the english plural.
Many prefer the latin plural Octopi.
But since the word comes from the greek language, the correct plural would be Octopedes.
All three of these are widely accepted, so quit whining and call them whatever you like
MrWhatdafuBOOM, we aren't speaking Greek or Latin though now are we?
I love octopuses, I always knew in a way that they're close to us, they are funny & clever
...they're close to us ??? - Please do Not insult octopuses !
randomly came across a yt short of someone with a pet octopus, it caught my attention and i am now very interested in octopuses and how smart they are 😂😂
guys, it can be octopi OR octopuses. Both are correct, though I would've gone for octopi.
No, that's wrong. Octopus is not a latin word it is greek. The only options are octopuses and octopodes.
+Austen Andrews Common usage tho...
nupe
I always thought it was octoplex... it sounds cool because of the x
actually octopi is wildly regarded as incorrect.
I have always loved and admired octopi (or octopuses, f*ck you). Thank you for this episode.
I want an RPG about being an octopus. The player could level up different defense/hunting mechanisms such as ink use, color change, or flexibility, using whichever one most appealed to them.
i should start thinking about one lol
+Leo Schue Splatoon: RPG
"Winter is here"
I'm happy that the octopuses/octopi has come so long way it's no longer needed to explain in every video that yes it's octopuses.
I like the word octopodes. It sounds more fun. It's not the right word if you want to talk about these creatures, but it's accurate enough. They do have eight legs. But more than that. I like how it sounds =)
The study first describing personalities in octopuses was performed on the Ruby Octopus (Octopus rubescens), the species that we work with over at Octopodium!
HEY IT'S A VIDEO ABOUT OCTOPI! LET'S BASH RELIGION!
OCUPUSES ARE SMART? WELL FUCK RELIGION.
Octopuses*
Octopodes*
Well what are ya gonna do? People like to make it an issue.
octopoloptogon*
It's octopodes, you plebeian.
Every time I click on one of these vids I just wait for the first word to see who is doing the video. If it ain't Hank, I'm clicking off lmao
Here is my dilemma: if an octopus ever uses a dynamite for fishing and accidentally blows itself apart in the process, should we give it a Darwin Award or not?
Anything or anyone that uses explosives while having no expertise deserves such an award.
Well an octopus can't make dinamite explode underwater so there, no dilemma
Intelligent Octopuses would never use dynamite for fishing !
Octopus job interview question: how many surfaces can your severed arm camouflage within the space of 5 seconds?
As many as your severed arm can cover !
I would have liked some more examples, possibly footage showing their intelligence. Still SciShow, I love thee.
Holy shit, I looked it up and the plural is actually octopuses, not octopi.
Octopuses just sounds wrong. I know that octopi is only an acceptable variant, but I had never heard octopuses before your video, and I'm 65. I'll probably continue with octopi because it is what I'm comfortable with.
Well then, call them octopodes. The work comes from Greek (Okto-pus, aka 8-legs). "Pus" plural is "Podes"
Of course that's perfectly fine :) I think Hank uses Octopuses to provoke controversy so people can learn that there even are variants. As long as someone understands what you mean, I don't think there's a problem.
SquidPlays Sorry, I've always heard and used octopi. Octopodes sounds better than octopuses, but it still doesn't work for me.
Phil Heaton eh
It's octopodes, you plebeian.
MattShae
“Octopuses” 😂
That's the correct word. "Octopi" is a made up word based on Latin words like "Cacti", but Octopus is a Greek word, so it follows Greek formations of plural, meaning the correct word would be Octopodes, or Octopuses in the case of the standard English formation of plurals, or Octopods for the zoology term, those three are all correct, but "Octopi" is wrong.
Octopises are like pigs: underrated in how interesting they are.
Yeah, but we still need to improve a lot on knowing the "why they are smart". Just to avoid being food? So why don't all preys in nature are smart as hell?
My guess? Cthuhu ordered they being smart, so they could praise the ancient one and his glory.
Being smart is just one alternative to avoiding predators, other organisms found other ways to live on so they didn't need to be smart, while octopuses may have just hit an accidental lottery with being smart.
@@chorosso5259 thats usually a acceptable explanation, altough I still find it lacking... don't usually go for "accidental lottery", evalution usually has/ocludes more patterns than that
@@chorosso5259 There is nothing 'accidental' in the evolution of nature or of any species - only and unexplainable 'urge' to grow and survive !
@@HartmutJagerArt All evolution is accidental, all gene mutation is random chance.
Octopodes*
My preferred plural is 'octopi'. 'Octopuses' values standardization over practical pronunciation considerations, which I think is the wrong priority, so if I actively choose, I'll choose the one which prioritizes what i do. Of course, when I'm not thinking about it, I'll still often use 'octopuses'. 'Octopodes' places too much value on a language which is not the one being spoken. (Which makes me start to think about what would happen if we started capitalizing all nouns of Germanic origin and not capitalizing those of Romantic origin. Not a valid argument against 'octopedes', of course, but that's why this is parenthetical.)
@@cOmAtOrAn Standardization is the only thing that makes language work, but fortunately those standards can be loose. But then you say "octopodes" places too much value "on a language not being spoken", which could also be said of the word "octopi". Most people say "octopuses"; therefore "octopi" also qualifies as "language not being spoken" in most reasonable contexts.
And now we have highlighted extremely well how little it all actually matters because, while standardized, language is temporal and flexible and not worth semantic argument. PS I'm high.
I came from Mattshea
Yup
Just came from crash course philosophy SO MUCH HANK TODAY I LOVE IT!
It makes sence that octopuses developed decentralized nervous system since they never evolved an ability to myelinate their axons. This makes their nerve signals relatively slow and inefficient over long distances. So it helps when these signals don't need to travel over long distances - hence decentralization. Additionally, a large, centralized brain would likely require more oxygen than their hemocyanin based blood could provide. So under these tough constraints it is very surprising how much intelligence could be had.