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[10] Octopus eyes, too, look and work much like those of vertebrates; but there, Baer remarks, the similarities end. Cephalopods are "immensely foreign", with "a distributed sense of self" and a "lived reality" quite unlike human consciousness, a feature that, he notes, Godfrey-Smith calls "the most difficult aspect of octopus experience to ...
To accommodate the rapid changes in water intake and expulsion, the orifices are highly flexible and can change their size by a factor of 20; the funnel radius, conversely, changes only by a factor of around 1.5. [76] Some octopus species are also able to walk along the seabed.
It has the common name algae octopus due to its typical resting camouflage, which resembles a gastropod shell overgrown with algae. It is small in size with a mantle around the size of a small orange ( c. 7 cm or 3 inches) and arms 25 cm (10 inches) in length, and is adept at mimicking its surroundings.
At the ocean floor, a large group of pearl octopus protect their eggs. Hydrothermal vent animals are filmed, including tube worms. Lastly, anchovies offshore of Chile are simultaneously caught by fisherman and sea lions, while sea lions jump inside the net to devour fish. The "making of" segment highlights the sea lions in the fishing nets.
Free diver and marine biologist Jules Casey is no stranger to animals that dwell on Australia’s ocean floor, and she was delighted to encounter a sand octopus as it was burrowing itself into the ...
An octopus (pl.: octopuses or octopodes [a]) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (/ ɒ k ˈ t ɒ p ə d ə /, ok-TOP-ə-də [3]).The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.
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A word-of-mouth phenomenon since its Netflix premiere in September, “My Octopus Teacher” is a surprisingly rare example of an international South African hit centered on the country’s richly ...