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InformationVideo published by Pall Sigurdsson In this video, divers randomly come across a tiny baby octopus that has taken over a small transparent plastic cup as a hiding place. Besides the real lack of shelter, the plastic could slowly poison the animal. They therefore offer it a series of shells of different sizes to encourage it to replace...

InformationVideo published by Nature on PBS This video shows us, in high quality, an octopus while it sleeps. The narrator explains that it is probably having a deep dream in which it catches a crab on the ocean floor. Each color change is usually used to surprise / attack prey, then when it rises above the bottom, it generally turns black, and...

InformationVideo published by NatureFootage A small octopus seems to be having fun on the back of a moray eel. Apparently it does not want to eat it; it may simply be showing who is boss. The moray eel seems distressed and struggles with all its strength, without any real success

InformationVideo published by BBC Earth This short and beautiful video promotes a Natural World documentary on the BBC, available here. Since Youtube blocked community participation for translating this video, I am adding here the translation of the different texts displayed for non-English speakers: Octopuses are absolutely weird. Their bodies...

InformationVideo published by National Geographic In this video from National Geographic, we see cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) camouflaging themselves as hermit crabs to trap their prey more effectively. Sepia pharaonis is a species of cuttlefish in the Sepiidae family. This strange behavior was initially discovered in Japan, at the University of...