Smart Octopus Reacting to TV Screen
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2019
- Octopuses are very smart animals. In this video, you’ll see an octopus that is presented with crabs. However, these are not your ordinary crabs. They’re merely images and videos of crabs we found on UA-cam.
His initial reaction is to attack the crabs on the screen. After a few unsuccessful attempts, and further investigation, the smart octopus in this video is able to recognise that the crabs are not in fact real. He quickly learns this and abandons any hope he had of catching and eating the crabs on the TV screen.
Although he was initially tricked into lunging towards the screen, the octopus was smart enough to eventually distinguish the images of crabs from real crabs. We spent days trying to replicate this and were unsuccessful. He showed no interest in the crabs on the screen after his initial encounter. - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
Day 257 of my captivity. This time the fiendish sadists used some kind of holographic simulation of reality in order to see how I'd react to a simulacrum of prey. They're clearly suffering from an inferiority complex brought on by inadequate intelligence and are attempting to display their technology as an indicator of conceptual superiority. How transparent.
Your comment is absolutely priceless! got me cracking up! Thank you for that!
@@DannyD1Chung I thought the concept was funny. The execution probably could've been better but thanks. Lol.
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Deep psychological stuff
It didn't take him long to figure out the screen was fake, did it. I'll bet if he decides which of his arms is the middle, he'll flip you off!
I was thinking that too
And they would deserve it!
Does he recognize a predator/enemy, too, and figure out that it is also fake?
Hahahahahahaha that would be something to see
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haha I said that many times about arnold lol......specially the one where they put a barrier between him and his barrel so small he couldn't get through....so he just removed the whole barrier lol......
So, you made a hungry guy watch his version of the Food Network.
HaHa That's good.
LMAO
actually a sad thing to watch, imagine we are in a small empty cage watching life all around us and can't reach it !
Even the octopus realizes that TV is mindless drivel.
Imagine being in prison and having to watch a life size video of your family eating dinner around your dinner table at home like you aren't there.
2:02 "Can you humans put something else on than the goddamn Crab Network? God almighty. I'd take NASCAR at this point."
Lmfao I'm wheezing! 😂🤣😂🤣
Squidbillies!
This reminds me of an article I saw where a cat learned how to use a video surveillance system to help it catch mice - it had learned that while the mouse on the screen couldn't be caught, it did correspond to a mouse in a real location that could be tracked down. I'd be interested to see if an octopus could figure out the same tactic!
^^^I'd love to see this!
I always wonder if my cat is watching TV by watching the TV reflection
1 naval octopus unit coming right up!
I think they're very sweet animals
Yup. Especially in oriental sauce.
@@GenderWoman666 XD
What did I learn today? Octopi are smarter and saner than politicians. The octopus will move back, re-assess, and approach the problem in a different way. A politician won’t.
That’s very true
*Octopuses
Danny Chung Matter of word preference.
www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes
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Octopi is using a Latin plural on a word of Greek origin. Octopodes or octopuses is more like it.
They are so smart...I wish they were longer lived, though they woul probably take over, lol.
“In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
THANK YOU! Perfect music...he’s so beautiful! Your comment sounds like a line from Rumi!
Ok...what’s the source for the lune?
It’s Lovecraft...boy was I off!
Embarrassed to admit I know very little of Lovecraft’s body of work...need to fix that.
You should get a bigger tank, some coral, polyps, fish, and other some crabs for him.
After the Octopus unsuccesfully lunged at the crab a second time, when moves to the top left corner at 1:04 it seems to be probing the glass looking for a way out of the aquarium!!
Ocotopus: "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
This feels cruel and confusing to him, also the tank is too sterile, they are way too curious of creatures to be so deprived
Daneen Shelton they need to stimulate their brains like a human would. This is the human equivalent of solitary confinement. Research shows because of their high intelligence they get bored very easily and can die/get depressed, you would think a channel called “OctoLab” would know this
Agreed
Danz VG I think this is the ‘observation tank’ and he goes back to his posh tank afterwards.
@@canterlevi You are correct. They live in larger tanks that have substrate, plants, rocks, etc., that simulate their native environment. They only go in the bare aquariums for the observations and experiments. They explain this on their website, octolab.tv under "about us".
It's just cruel doing this, also the way he's kept in that tank is cruel. Octopuses like to hide behind things, he has nothing.
I wish you'd given the octopus a real crab at the end of all that teasing. Poor little thing! ;p
My thoughts exactly.
@Mr Penguin Oh, good! I must've had my oblivious hat on that day! I was worried for the tentacled sweetie. Still would've been nice to see it happen, but I feel better about it now - Thanks for pointing that out, Mr. P.
@@RandomNexus Personally, I was hoping they wouldn't show that - it doesn't end up going well for the crab! I understand the reality of that happening in nature, I just don't really want to see it...
@@pjp9383 Honestly, you won't see it happen if it ever shows up on screen. Octopuses usually like to "net" their prey in their arms, so you wouldn't be able to see much of the...process.
I actually feel really bad for them. As much as it is fascinating to see their reactions to different things, I think it's kind of sadistic. These are very intelligent creatures & deserve more than this
They probably love the stimulus, they get bored easily, it doesn't matter how good the tank is without constant stimuli they'll get very very bored.
So do I 🙁
I absolutely love and respect cephalopods. As far as I'm concerned, their intelligence surpasses ours for the simple reason that they don't set out to destroy their environment.
Poor poor creature in a tank with no environment, how cruel. And to crown all, torture tapes. I agree with the individual, who wrote the creature ought to give them the middle tentacle!!
Octopus: What is this hell
I hope he got something for his hard luck
I find it interesting how octopi tend to use their "bottom" arms (the ones oposite their eyes) as legs to touch the floor and "walk" across it. They also seem to have a dominant pair of arms, I think its the two in front, to explore things. The other 4 seem to be for balance and to support the efforts of the other pairs when needed
I feel sorry for him. Poor little octopus ☹️
I would like to donate these crabs for this little guy’s hard work:
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And one tasty lobster:
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Daffney Dalilah no, don’t eat them! If you order calamari, you get fried pig rectum.
This music has the refrain from the song “Far From the Home I Love.” How ironic, and sad.
Song is "November is Late" by Allegionus... I hear it in the fiddler on the roof song too...
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Aw come on, give the poor guy a crab ya pricks!
This one seems a little cruel. Maybe you should give him an actual crab. He obviously wants one. But he isn’t stupid!
Honestly this is very sad... 😔 There is no need to torture the little guy
Or me.....
Honestly with intelligence like that, surely they would provide some kind of stimuli...
I mean they have been known to leave their tanks and fail to get back in time when bored. They are smart animals, stimulation is needed.
Let the octopus free, he miss his home
i agree....this is Sad....
Go away
No, this is his home. He was probably bred in captivity. Plus how the hell did you get that from this? As soon as he realised he couldn't get food he stopped caring.
Please tell me he gets real crabs sometimes, and an octo girlfriend.
Don't they quickly deteriorate and die after reproduction?
I’ve fallen in love with them.. wish they had a longer life span
He be like, "WTF? Where's my food?" It's like watching a cooking show ... ya can look but ya can't touch, or taste.
thekrrib well you can touch the tv
The octopus is smarter than you judging by your grammar.
What an amazing final position apparently totally weightless and obviously very comfortable. He is really a ballerina in disguise.. I truly am fascinated by octopuses so thank you for providing this video. You have a new subscriber.
Yep he's reacting, because he's actually pissed off! That's messing with his head! lol 😊
And to think that this graceful, thoughtful little creature is only 1 to 2 years old and will live less than 5 years. So smart, so soon, then gone.
I hope they treated him to a seafood buffet after this! Lol
Seems like some kind of psychological torture.
That's exactly what it is. It's just cruel, even that sterile bare tank is cruel.
I don't think it was so much of he distinguished the difference between a real crab and one on the screen, but realized there was a immovable barrier in his way
Can an octopus’s tentacles interact with a touch screen
Poor octopus. Seems stupid to have it in captivity just to see how it reacts to things.
I find it incredible that the scientific education of these individuals led to teasing of an octopus. From this we realize that humans really are bullies. Cute.....
By day one, the octopus is able to decipher fake news ...
My cat lunges at the television like this, when I put on any kind of fish or shark in water. He loves watching birds, squirrels, and chipmunks on tv or even my iPad lol. He goes nuts over the fish swimming and birds chirping. His favorite one is 🐠 fish with bright colors. I thought cats couldn’t see in color, but I’m not so sure now?
I surely hope this little guy gets returned to the wild after these experiments because the tank is no life for these intelligent creatures.
1:51 "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." He's too smart to be fooled by the screen after the first day. 🙂
How do you measure it's broken heart?
I think that he subconsciously or inadvertently knows the safe distance from a TV
Someone get him a real crab stat. Poor guy getting teased with food he can't have.
This was the most depressing of octopus videos. I think the TV screwed with him too much.
After watching your "building a tile shelter" video and leaving a suggestion to give him Legos, I then watched this and it gave me an idea involving the Legos ... Can Octopi learn by watching? Perhaps give him Lego's and then show a loop of a youngster building something with Legos close up on the video screen. Another suggestion: Use the same two-Color combo of legos in the video as you do on the screen, say blue and red or red and yellow, as it may help him "associate" (Not sure the correct word here) that they are different, yet the same and that they go together. Just a thought ...
Interesting that he didn't try again, even when the screen showed squid or fish. Maybe he got it in his mantle that all the images there were unreachable, instead of just the crabs. Though I've also seen octopodes learning from other cephs in a blocked off area, so maybe this guy is different from the rest. Have you tried exposing octopodes who have learned from others to these videos to see how they react?
"Do all oceans have walls?" Poor creature.
this octopus is smarter than 99% of the toxic people i've met on twitter in terms of differentiating fictional/recorded displays from real life matter.
i still think it is mean a small crab would be like a thank you for the crab for testing it gee
My puppy reacted at first to dogs on screen and now doesn't even look up. Whether its auditory and or visual she knows right away now. She is a smart bulldog, passed all the puzzle tests.
Try the picture without crabs...maybe he just wanted to go home? Than realized that he was still a prisoner.
As a reminder, first humans that saw reality displayed on aflat screen proceeded to run from the cinema lol
No reaction on the second day and those which follow means there is a memory, some learning and the capacity to overcome his urges/pulsions/...
Now, a good time to check for some curiosity even knowing that is unreachable. Try to make sure your octopus knows you are the one responsible for tv on, vary your movies and watch the behavior to see if that octopus shows some curiosity, some longing to see what tv will bring to enlighten his day...
Put in a place to hide with no direct view of the screen but oriented that he knows you are coming in a manner not to associate with food time.
HE'S LOOKING AT THE OCEAN PICS SAYING, "SOMEBODY GET ME THE HELL OUTTA HERE"??? "EVERYONE JUST PASSES ME BY, WTH"???
I wonder if the testers realize that most of the crabs and fish appear to be bigger than the octopus because of the close up shots being on the big screen. He was has unhappy color.
He’s only interested in catching it, not watching it.
3 days with no hiding place? That must have been exhausting. Not very nice to that octopus.
An hour of indifference then he quickly realized that he couldn't catch the crab. Quickly?? It took him an hour!
I see no reason to think that he realises the crabs aren't real. I find it much more likely that he reaches the conclusion that the crabs he's seeing are on the other side of one of the four invisible walls that surround him, and therefore impossible for him to get at.
How cute this little guy is! I hope to one day meet such a cute, AND smart Octopus. 🐙💙
Would be curious to see his reaction to being shown something that would normally pray on Octopus in the wild and see if he would react the same or if he would continue to be guarded against a threat.
I watched an octopus watch tv...
Isn't this a bit like showing a prisoner their friends and family having a good time without them?
Poor guy, imagine your are sitting in a glas house and see a screen with ur natural world and food...
Mental hospital? Or what?
Awe yes
I hope he got a huge treat for this.
They are incredibly intelligent and beautiful to watch, but they still scare the hell out of me. I'll never harm one, but I'll be that guy with the high-pitched scream.
My biology teacher told me that back in his marine zoology days, he had some octopi in the lab, and everytime they left the would plug in a tv in front of every tank to keep them occupied. Evidently it's all the colors and movement or some shit
Considering that he's going to the screen rather than the shrimp in the tank perhaps he seeks texture rather than food. I know I wouldn't like a world with no texture.
I think he knows how to read and read DELL on the screen.
Octopus say....:" I WANT TO BE FREE in my ocean!!!"😍🙏🌺
It seems to me that the octopus reacts to visual stimulation, but also on the other senses of smell and taste, which may be why he gave up.
Give that good boy a real crab
I recently watched a video of chimpanzees reacting to simple sleight of hand tricks. You should see is you can keep their attention long enough to perform some of these tricks and see if they react to it.
Also, one chimp was acting like it wasn't paying attention but as soon as the trick was done his eyes lit up and he had a really strong reaction to something disappearing in front of its face.
Looks to me more like he’s homesick and lonely. Doubt he’s got any nice thoughts of you guys
I have a couple of thoughts which perhaps might lead to at least one extension of this experiment.
I wonder if any of his seemingly random movement (after he learned he couldn’t get the crab) might have been attempts to get out of the tank to reach his prey. Since he couldn’t get through the tank/screen, perhaps he thought he should try going over it. I know from watching others of your videos that these little fellow are persistent and ingenious problem solvers.
Also, I wanted to mention that my cat enjoys watching videos made to entertain cats. He sometimes approaches the screen to paw at the birds or squirrels. On occasion he will go behind the screen to try and find another way to reach them. I wonder if an octopus would do something similar if a screen was actually in the tank.
He's literally climbing the walls.
Poor thing. He's got such a boring tank. Let him go!!!!!!!
quit teasing this octopus with movies of yummy crabs. i will now stop teasing myself with movies of yummy octopus.
i really hope his actual home is in a bigger tank and a better environment, and that he’s just in these empty ones for the sake of experiments :((
total torture..like dangling a fresh chocolate lemon filled crispy creme doughnut in front of me...i hope you will release this octopus.
Octopus...I'm no dummy.Love the video.Thank you.👍😉👍
octopus: can i watch the little mermaid next, please? under the sea!
I certainly hope he got a nice REAL crab dinner after this cruel experiment 😢
Can you give an octopus a jawbreaker and see how they react to sugar?
I live in Portugal in retirement, near the Octopus Capital of the World. But I don't eat animals
that display such superior intelligence, curiosity, and playfulness. They are smarter than dogs!
He will be the first octopus electronics engineer.
Good grief people! On this channel, we only see tiny fractions of these creatures’ lives in test tanks. The octopuses may have a much bigger tank with a stimulating environment the rest of the time. If you can’t be *adults* and stop assuming the worst about (and giving rude, uncalled for advice on) every animal video you see, even the ones where humans obviously care a great deal about their creatures, then do yourself and everyone else a favor and find something else to watch.
When someone acts like an idiot and assumes octolab doesn't know how to take care of octopuses here's the link that will disprove that their pets and kept in a bad place octolab.tv/about-us/
Lunch at the screen because he thought he could get out of that damn tank
Also, does this octopus have any reference to other sea life? Was it born in the tank? Where did you get it? So many questions.
Arnold is like, *NOPE* 🐙 I know that it's not a real crab!
I hope that he was rewarded for his efforts...💙🐙
Octopus: I am tired of your shit list your experiment.
Or did he realized he was trapped in there & there was no way of getting out
3:30 he starts just sitting there doing nothing watching tv. he gets it. he understands the point of tv
This is cruel, showing a prisoner footage of the reef and open sea... it broke my heart when it lunged towards the screen
Did you by chance measure the time it took for the octopus to realize live fish were in the tank? Wondering if with the TV on it turned off its hunting senses? (Or took much longer to hunt the fish than normal once it noticed them)
I’ve stopped eatin calimari...
Calamari is squid isn't it?
Kinda sad really. ☹ 🐙+🦀= I 🍽😊🐙